A painting by one of Canada’s Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, The Upper Ottawa, near Mattawa (1924) and a page from the American magazine, The Ladies Home Journal (Oct 1919). What do they have in common that I should bring them together in this collage? This edition of The Ladies Home Journal was delivered to homes in the Ottawa river valley in the 1919s.
In this collage the Ottawa river is replaced with an advertisement from the Journal. In the 1919s the river would have been part of the flow of goods up and down the Ottawa valley.
This particular edition of the The Ladies Home Journal (Oct 1919) has a mailing label still attached from 1919, addressed by Canada Post December 1919 to Miss M. V. McFarland, Rte 5, Almonte, Ontario.
This artist’s journal presents details about my artworks and provides a home for my earth shattering insights in art and everything.
Warning: Artist ahead talking about his ‘process’…
Regardless of the extreme optimism it implies, adding my voice to the fire-hose (tsunami) of the Internet and social media, I see in blogging the opportunity to document the geneology of my artworks, their origins and the story they tell.
My artworks each have their own story and these stories must be written down if they are to be remembered. The stories behind art is part of the value that art contains.
This journal gives my art an opportunity to speak, to tell its own story, and in telling its story, find an audience.
