Su Blackwell (British, b. 1975, Sheffield, UK, based London) - Wild Flowers Of The British Isles IX (+detail), 2013 Book Sculptures
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“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thinking maybe this isn’t what I was cut out to do. I was forty years old, and I’d invested a lot of time and effort into something that didn’t seem to be working. But the thing that got me through that moment, and any other time that I’ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it’s about the work. Because if you’re worrying about yourself—if you’re thinking: ‘Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?’ – then you’re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”
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So I have these videos since forever on my phone. It’s time to clean up my camera roll. Yes, it’s time of the year again. 😅 Slacker. ( Piggy cook #tintoy #vintage. Taken at small toy museum in #Yokohama last spring.) Is this #automaton ? I don’t know if it has batteries or not. And how this toy cook could flipped toy egg like that? The creator of this #vintagetoys is genius.
“Writing and photography are practices, not creeds; they are activities, like prayer, that you keep working at, evolve with, test yourself against—and as such, they are sources of exasperation as much as consolation.”
—Kevin Nance, on Teju Cole (Poets & Writers Magazine, 2016)
Book Sculptures by Su Blackwell
Su Blackwell born 1975 in Sheffield U.K is an artist working predominantly within the realm of paper. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003 and makes intricate art-works from every-day objects, transforming clothes and books into fantastical three-dimensional forms. Using a scalpel she cuts and glues the pages of books to create miniature dioramas glowing with lights in wood and glass boxes, like Victorian relics found in a museum of intrigue.
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