Cheryl Penn Artworks

For the Mona Lisa Call – I am getting some fantastic responses as you can see from the postings below – keep them coming please – whoever could have thought that an image, now about 500 years old, can still generate so many interpretations? I think there has to be a book made of all these somewhere along the line.  Anyone know any interested publishers??? Anyone heard of a shouting envelope? If you made this stamp  Vizma I am VERY (capital letters) impressed – its da Vinci’s  head of a man shouting as part of his studies for The Battle of Angina ac 1503.  As a matter of interest, these were to da Vinci the perfect visualization of what he called pazzia bestialissima (most beastly madness).

From Vizma Bruns (Australia)

Vizma caught the master at work – I always WONDERED what he did in his free time.  The small print reads – Dear Cheryl, Something in the mail fro you tomorrow, Leo. Ok – how sharp was that?

And this??? – Yip, A Bona Mona ))!

From Liketelevisionsnow (USA). – This envelope arrived in the mail first – warning me of good things to come – The Mona Lisa Remix.

I had asked participants to state their view on the authenticity and originality of an artwork. LTS decided he would rather tackle View your State. State of Being? State of Play? State of ???

I think Liketelevisionsnow’s Mona lies in State, a bit cut up?

And in other news,

A new Correspond net Dean Marks (Artist in-Seine) France has also been sending me MANY cut up things. I think it has to do with too much time spent inter-planetary. Houston to Dean – did you manage to control the Red?

Its the test patterns you see. No – you will have to ask Dean for more info about this.  Its a remarkable piece of cut-up anyway. He wont say, but he has elves working for him. And I don’t think he is giving them a pension.

On that note, I think I am cutting up and sending out one of my painting rags. I quite like it.

AND the chart so far of FLUXUS words in my possession from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands)

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From Alicia Starr (USA) – another superb Mona Lisa for my Mail Art Call -  titled  Enigma

And another

From Emmy Verschoor (Netherlands) – Lonely Lisa

From Marie Wintzer (Japan) – this was supposed to be a sculptural piece – BUT you know what mail art does – its own thing!  Marie knows my love of language – and this is called a Language Labyrinth – made more pertinent by its unwillingness to be opened!!

GOING – Genki People – Dream 5 I think

It will be accompanied my Dreaming on Planes

And Dream 6 – Life after Potholes 

Which will be accompanied by – No entry

And my next batch of original Mona Lisa in Flux are out – sent to participants of the call

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RCBz has created this gallery – its NOT the Dulwich Mona Gallery – I have to come up with another name – Its an Ether Gallery for sure – whoever would have thought? This call has produced such wonderful work and RCBz has created a home for it – I am CHUFFED!!!

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From Roberto Rios – Puerto Rico – in answer to the Mona Lisa call

From Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) – Another FLUXUS word from Ruud’s (TAM-Publications/IUOMA) FLUXUS word score which has been going since 1988

From Marie Wintzer (Japan) – A beautiful box of months of the year – each handcrafted – here is summer in the north

From Nancy Bell Scott- Mona Lisa

A fantastic artists’ boom from Torma Cauli (Budapest)

Envelope art from  Niklas Heed (Sweden)

DeskTops from Marcela Peral (Argentina)

From "E" – France – when further FLUXUS hits ZALOP – these sheets of paper made it through the mail can you believe it!

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HOT off the press:

From Rod Summers (Netherlands) – WebCam Mona Lisa -  Rod’s gallerist was happy, I was happy – win win

From RCBz (USA) – Mona (Medi-lert) lisa.  RCBz also sent me a succinct note on the fair use of images (See below)

The palpable reasons from the image – tongue in cheek perhaps, but a timely reminder of our frailness:

From Alicia Starr (USA) – the mystery deepens as always with Alicia

From Nancy Bell Scott (USA) – the card behind the matchbox has a note – Before I went Abstract  !

Back to RCBz’s note on image appropriation:

He makes mention of the Richard Prince case (which I was not familiar with) which "has brought fair use of images back into the news".

The conclusion to his thoughts is:

"Once you have incorporated a borrowed piece," "your work must in some way comment on, relate to the historical context of, or critically refer back to the original works"" In other words, your work enhances the artistic content of the borrowed piece rather than the borrowed piece infusing your work with artistic merit… the borrowed piece, in and of itself, should not be the driving force of the new piece".

You’re making me think – as usual. 

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Yip – Moya Evans is the computer whizz

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