tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85806057809631645062024-02-20T02:41:41.577-08:00GIBBIN HOUSEKeys to a novel, its creator, and the art it inspired...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-5863708249903551572014-11-02T21:48:00.001-08:002014-11-02T21:48:11.397-08:00GIBBIN HOUSE: Carola Perla's "Spelling Bee" Featured in the Zero...<a href="http://gibbinhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/carola-perlas-spelling-bee-featured-in.html?spref=bl">GIBBIN HOUSE: Carola Perla's "Spelling Bee" Featured in the Zero...</a>: It's been almost a year in the works, but the inaugural annual issue of ELSE Art Journal -“Trans-what?” and “Everything Else” is...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-88021957368232306482014-11-02T21:42:00.001-08:002014-11-02T21:42:29.097-08:00Carola Perla's "Spelling Bee" Featured in the Zero Edition of ELSE Art Journal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been almost a year in the works, but the inaugural annual issue of ELSE Art Journal -“Trans-what?” and “Everything Else” is finally here!</div>
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Moreover it features a 2-page spread on my 2012 "Spelling Bee" visual poem and cut paper installation, which itself is currently on view in the "Lit / Lite" Solo Exhibit at The Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri, until November 7th, 2014.</div>
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Thank you so much to the staff for inclusion in this impressive annual academic art journal. I'm thrilled join this list of international artists and honored to have been deemed relevant and worthy by my peers.</div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-10220857760819974872014-10-08T11:38:00.000-07:002014-10-08T11:38:55.112-07:00'LIT/LITE: Visual Poetry Installations by Carola Perla' at the Foundry Art Centre# - A Look Back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My very first solo show 'LIT/LITE: Visual Poetry Installations' opened two Thursdays ago at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles (St. Louis, MO), and I am still finding it hard to believe...<br />
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I say this for two reasons: the first is that I feel like such a novice. I started with my paper cuts three years ago and it still startles me a bit to think of myself as an artist. The title 'artist' seems to imply such a lot of struggle and suffering, countered by that unmistakable streak of genius and determination. I instantly recall scenes from 'Of Human Bondage', because I had always imagined myself more like that novel's protagonist, a dilettante rather than the real thing, a lover of the bohemian life, a romantic, not meant for an actual hard life on the street in search of a dream, never really risking the gutter...I never imagined a road towards 'artist' a clean one...even as a writer, I battled demons, I lived a solitary life, at times I sacrificed...but this art, for which I am suddenly recognized and rewarded, this art had been a path of few stumbling blocks, of real joy, of (dare I admit) caprice...how have I found myself in this place, I wondered that evening in Saint Charles? Can I be deserving? What comes next?<br />
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Which I suppose is the question that brings me to my second reason: last year when I received my prize, it felt like such a beginning of something. A year later, it feels like a closing chapter...because the truth is that with all my work displayed, I must forge a new path...I have to figure out what I need to do to grow, what still needs saying, do I intend to sell these things one day? How much longer can I consider myself an artist without selling a piece? Is this a fork in the road? These are the questions I am not prepared to answer yet, and so the experience remains stubbornly in my mind an unsolidified one, a castle in the air, a whisper of memories...I am not ready to be nostalgic...<br />
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So instead I will focus on the journey of this past year, on the loneliness I felt last June, my uncertainty as I entered the Foundry, afraid of feeling inconsequential, of not being able to stand on my own...and knowing that all these months later, I could not feel more loved or consequential, at least to all who matter most to me...if I happen to elicit any such feeling from others through my work, then I can count myself truly blessed, and perhaps even an 'artist'<br />
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I will save my full comments about this experience for after the opening, I'm too nervous to go into it now...what I will say is that this show punctuates my life in more significant ways than I could have foreseen last year when I unexpectedly won the Best in Show at the Foundry Art Centre's "Paper Cuts" exhibit. Life is a never-ending stream of surprises, lessons, and miracles, and if I ever stop believing that, then all I have to do is look back on this moment...I am so proud, grateful, and full of emotion, having sent off three year's worth of work - my entire collection - to this show, not sure if I sent enough light bulbs, wrote the correct measurements, made good enough work, and yet knowing that it doesn't matter, because this is all part of the journey...I will keep you posted on the results...in the meantime, here is the flyer for the show:<br />
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Paper and Sculpture Exhibit at Impact Artists' Gallery</div>
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<strong>Sculpture</strong> : In its complexity, sculpture is both noun and verb, both the means and the end to production.<br />
<strong>Noun</strong> : The art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, esp. by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.<br />
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Paper art can be traced back to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago.<br />
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Selection in this exhibit coincides with being awarded a Showcase Winner in ART SLANT's 1st Showcase in 20014 Competition!</div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-55292666584790926522014-03-02T13:24:00.001-08:002014-03-02T13:24:21.460-08:00Moon Shine Art Spot: Review: Gibbin House<a href="http://moonshineartspot.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-gibbin-house.html?spref=bl">Moon Shine Art Spot: Review: Gibbin House</a>: Gibbin House by Carola Perla My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gibbin House by Carola Perla is one if my favorite ...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-62439831306029590552014-02-18T08:44:00.001-08:002014-02-18T08:44:40.810-08:00CTC Virtual Book Tour of Gibbin House: Thanks to All for the Great Reception!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A great measure of thanks all the participants in the CTC Virtual Book for "Gibbin House", their wonderful reviews and generosity in hosting my author guest posts:</div>
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"...Gibbin House is so interesting, so heartfelt, so much so that I’m struggling with words...A book that will hang around in your thoughts after closing the book or clicking off the Kindle!..." </div>
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"Literary Influences: How Margaret Ball Changed My Life"</div>
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I really enjoyed reading “Gibbin House”. It was nice change of material from the typical books I read and it had an intriguing storyline. The novel, is an historical fiction story and takes events from the past and meshes with a interesting plot. It took me a while to understand some of the historical contexts I was reading about since I wasn’t very knowledgeable about the country and the time period. Doing a little side research cleared up my confusion immediately and I was able to understand and follow the plot. Perla is a great writer. ..<a href="http://lifeofafemalebibliophile.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/book-tour-review-and-giveaway-gibbin-house-by-carola-perla/" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-40417961569149603212014-02-12T17:41:00.001-08:002014-02-12T17:41:01.085-08:00A Book Geek: Gibbin House Blog Tour - Excerpt Post and Giveaway...<a href="http://abookgeek-llm.blogspot.com/2014/02/gibbin-house-blog-tour-excerpt-post-and.html?spref=bl">A Book Geek: Gibbin House Blog Tour - Excerpt Post and Giveaway...</a>: Gibbin House by Carola Perla Source: Author via Closed the Cover for an honest review Format: eBook and Paperback Publication Date: ...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-88775778187764361492014-02-11T09:38:00.001-08:002014-02-11T09:38:35.957-08:00Book Tour Giveaway ~ Gibbin House by Carola Perla<a href="http://kellyatx.blogspot.com/2014/02/book-tour-giveaway-gibbin-house-by.html#.UvpgEzNVK3G.blogger">Book Tour Giveaway ~ Gibbin House by Carola Perla</a>gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-11035680645873587132014-02-08T09:01:00.001-08:002014-02-08T09:01:49.364-08:00Library Educated: Book Review: "Gibbin House" by Carola Perla and Gi...<a href="http://libraryeducated.blogspot.com/2014/02/book-review-gibbin-house-by-carola.html?spref=bl">Library Educated: Book Review: "Gibbin House" by Carola Perla and Gi...</a>: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ------------------------------ Gibbin House is kind of like a house for ...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-84463546210539496062014-02-04T23:35:00.001-08:002014-02-04T23:35:38.173-08:00GIBBIN HOUSE: Gibbin House - CTC Virtual Book Tour - February 8 ...<a href="http://gibbinhouse.blogspot.com/2014/02/gibbin-house-ctc-virtual-book-tour.html?spref=bl">GIBBIN HOUSE: Gibbin House - CTC Virtual Book Tour - February 8 ...</a>: Just recently I ran a Google search for "Gibbin House" and stumbled upon the most remarkable thing - the last line of m...gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-63562735871039478662014-02-04T23:33:00.000-08:002014-02-04T23:33:14.282-08:00Gibbin House - CTC Virtual Book Tour - February 8 -15, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just recently I ran a Google search for "Gibbin House" and stumbled upon the most remarkable thing - the last line of my novel being quoted as a keynote at a National Youth Assembly for the United Reformed Church in the UK (the theme was Lost and Found: People in Exile)...<br />
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I assume the speaker probably Googled the line (in much the same indiscriminate manner as I had my name), being in search of a quote about exile, and stumbled on it on Goodreads (I assume this because my circle of readers remains, for a lack of a better word, concise). The path, however, is really quite irrelevant, as what matters is what it signifies - that even in relative obscurity, in this day and age, a self-published work has a life, a resonance of its own in the ether...the Internet is a wonder...<br />
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That said, I happily and most enthusiastically announce the upcoming <strong><u>Virtual Tour of "Gibbin House", conducted by Closed The Cover, February 8 -15, 2014</u></strong>. Below is the schedule, which includes an assortment of book reviews, excerpts, Q & A, guest posts, and fantastic giveaway! Stay tuned!<br />
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<u>February 8, 2014</u><br />Closed the Cover - Kick-Off Post and Giveaway<br /><a href="http://libraryeducated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="">Library Educated</a> - Book Review<br /><br /><u>February 9, 2014</u><br /><a href="http://www.lifeofafemalebibliophile.com/" target="_blank">Life of a Female Bibliophile</a> - Book Review<br /><br /><u>February 10, 2014</u><br />Hobby Lady - Book Excerpt<br /><br /><u>February 11, 2014</u><br />All R Media - Book Review<br /><br /><u>February 12, 2014</u><br /><a href="http://abookgeek-llm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="">A Book Geek</a> - Book Excerpt<br /><br /><u>February 13, 2014</u><br /><a href="http://notdrinkingcoffee.com/" target="_blank">Not Drinking Coffee</a> - Book Excerpt<br /><br /><u>February 14, 2014</u><br /><a href="http://bookhostage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" title="">Book Hostage</a> - Author Q&A<br /><br /><u>February 15, 2014</u><br /><a href="http://travelingwitht.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Traveling with T</a> - Book Review and Guest Post</div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-69231454663898408892014-01-14T15:00:00.001-08:002014-01-14T15:02:52.469-08:00Creative Quarterly Journal Annouces CQ34 Winners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-83291674374411600702013-10-15T20:10:00.000-07:002013-10-15T20:21:20.695-07:00"Mariposa" (Butterfly) - My latest KONZEPTION Installation for the novel "Humboldt's Riches" - PART 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As of October 12th, I am officially underway in my KONZEPTION cross-pollinating literature and art project. "Se Vende" led into the theme. "Prologue" served as the page of inception. Now "Mariposa" begins to introduce some of the main themes in the novel, which I can't wait to start wrestling with over the next few months. I will talk more about naturalism and Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian explorer who inspired the title of my new book, in the next post. For now I will leave you with this description and images from the new art installation.<br />
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The subject is Amazonian butterflies: <em>mariposas</em>. The installation depicts them as biological nomenclature hovering amidst a lattice-like net and sculptural 'foliage', to which cling crystalline vellum butterflies, transparent yet veined with white ink and pencil. In "Humboldt's Riches", the main characters are a family of young biologists who have journeyed into Peru's Apurimac region to run an uncle's hacienda hotel, with the idea of continuing their study of butterflies there. Once arrived, they endure the hardships of living in this remote wilderness and start to see hints of the impending dangers that will catapult them into the novel's adventure, Yet all the while they cannot resist delving into the forest for their quarry, the variety of vibrant papilios, some rare and uncatalogued, as large as their spread hands. <br />
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The installation, as seen presently, offers a depiction of this butterfly theme. Only when the novel is read months down the line, will the installation offer a different perspective on the subject, begging the question of who is being chased, who exactly is trapped in that lattice-like net among the sculptural green???<br />
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-37145345000953579922013-10-15T19:21:00.000-07:002013-10-15T19:23:35.670-07:00Carola Perla Chosen to Contribute to InterArtive Magazine's Art & Mobility Issue <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As those of you who have read <em>Gibbin House</em> or seen my art installations can attest, immigration, travel, assimilation, and the effects of language on identity lie at the core of much of what I do.</div>
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So naturally, when I saw this call for prosecti from InterARTive for its special October "Art & Mobility" issue a couple months ago, I really wanted to be a part of it. I did so for several reasons, not least of them being that the theme of mobility plays such a central role in my writing and paper art, and that this would also be the first legitimately academic medium in which to share my work. I applied and was over the moon to find the brief email notice in my inbox a few weeks ago, announcing that I would be among the amazing roster of international artists featured.</div>
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InterARTive describes the idea behind this issue in the following words <em>"to reflect on the multiple aspects of cultural and artistic mobility and to open the way towards a transdisciplinary field of study that increasingly claims its place in the analysis and research of the social and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world."</em></div>
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In simpler terms, the world is changing. For centuries we have defined our art and aesthetics by our cultural values and social constructs. But in the 21st century, in this global and 'mobile' society, we no longer have distinct aesthetic or cultural boundaries. Obviously this is not a new idea. But while most people will focus on the benefits of the multi-cultural melting pot results we see in our modern experience, there is another side, a tale of displacement, transience, homelessness, resettlement and asylum. Art has explored such issues in recent years as mass-manufacturing, globalization, etc...so it must now tackle the most immediate topic of immigration, transculturation, and the recalibration of self in a transnational world, as it concerns our emotional, political, and ideological existence.</div>
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I consider myself an emblem of this experience, a child of many cultures, a citizen of many countries, with each foot in a different place, never quite sure of where I belong, because my skin, my language, or my social behavior will forever tag me with the label of 'other', no matter where I am. More than any single factor in my life, this state of not belonging coupled with my appreciation of every culture that lives in me, will forever color everything I create. </div>
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Thus, inclusion in this issue is a great show of acceptance of my work, as it pertains to the topic and to the conceptual art community at large. It means my message, however transmitted via the whimsical flurry of white paper and light, is being heard, is valid.</div>
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To read more on my "Lichtsprache" (illuminated language), follow the link:</div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-55790896912181133632013-09-14T09:54:00.000-07:002013-09-14T09:54:01.297-07:00Four Points Contemporary: Latest Exhibition Selection <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This past August, I had the honor of being selected to the Four Points Contemporary's <strong>1st Annual All Media International Juried exhibition</strong>. The online exhibition, which seeks to discover promising talent from among emerging international artists, runs now through September 30th, 2013. Visit the link to see the complete exhibit: <a href="http://www.fourpointscontemporary.com/current-exhibitions/" target="_blank"><strong>Four Points Contemporary Current Exhibitions </strong></a>.<br />
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The honor tops off an amazing summer of 'Little Victories', from Bronze in the Art Ascent Magazine "Emergence' Competition to 'Best in Show' at the Foundry Art Centre's 'Papercuts' exhibit, as well as selection in the Vargas Gallery's '2013 South Florida Group' Show and the American Art Jury's 'Gallery of Invited Artists' Salon, as well as a feature article in South Florida's Sun Post. On the literature front, 'Gibbin House' has also had its little moment in the sun, with reviews, interviews and author spotlights, and giveaways.<br />
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In all, it's only been six months since I began an active push towards making my art more public, and the response goes to show what can come from some concentrated efforts. As I begin 'Humboldt's' Riches' and the 'KONZEPTION' series, I foresee this forward trajectory slowing, being that writing and making art will once again consume my free time. Let's see what the next six months bring...<br />
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-31141718027672452012013-08-18T14:17:00.000-07:002013-08-18T14:17:25.371-07:00Carola Perla Author Interview @ MoonShine Art Spot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This month I had the pleasure to speak with MoonShine Art Spot in a special author interview, released in conjunction with the Summer Giveaway Hop 2013. I had the chance to address my inspiration for "Gibbin House" and other personal experiences that made it into the book. Here is an excerpt from the interview. To read in its entirety, follow the link:</em></span></div>
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home after the Second World War and start a new life in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this story of exile based on anything
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To some extent, yes, although I was much younger than Anka when I
left Communist-era Romania in 1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five
years earlier, my father had traveled from his native Peru to Timisoara, to
study biology at the Polytechnic University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He hadn’t been there long when he went to a party and met a leggy blonde
with John Lennon glasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He barely
spoke a word of Romanian, but he was beautiful and brilliant in after-shave and
bell bottom jeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a typical
hippie love story, but for the fact that the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ceausescu regime forbade
relationships with foreigners<em>...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><strong> </strong><a href="http://moonshineartspot.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-hop-gibbin-house-by-carola.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>to continue...</strong></span></a></span></em></span></div>
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clothes she’s sewn herself, getting on a plane, and seeing her own mother, as
far as she knows, for the last time in her life...<a href="http://moonshineartspot.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-hop-gibbin-house-by-carola.html" target="_blank"><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">to continue...</span></em></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">KONZEPTION
– a cross-pollinating literary fiction and art installation project – aims to
make a novel visually manifest by interpreting its creative process concurrent
with its evolution, from inception to publication, through works of cut-paper
sculpture and mixed media visual poetry installations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art works become inextricably linked to
the written word with the novel’s opening lines, which are composed within the
first piece in the series “Konzeption: Prologue”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Subsequently, as the writing process
continues, the novel’s themes and events inform new installations, while they
in turn serve as springboards and incubators for later chapters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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marries Carola Perla’s prose work with her sculptural ‘Lichtsprache’ – lighted
cut-paper sculpture and visual poetry installations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She created her first installation, “Off the
Page” (2011), as a direct reaction to the hermetic process of writing her debut
novel “Gibbin House”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her desire to
visually celebrate the completion of this book led to further exploration in
‘lighted’ words and cut paper that incorporated published text as well as in
situ ‘poetry chants’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KONZEPTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>picks up where “Off the Page” left off,
examining the birth of the novel instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The source here is the in-progress literary fiction novel “Humboldt’s
Riches”, a semi-autobiographical Heart of Darkness that follows a young
family’s escape from the remote Amazon region of Apurimac during Peru’s 1980
guerilla uprisings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prologue”, written in a similar way to other ‘poetry chants’, sets the stage
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task of driving in the Andes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
spontaneous composition, the prologue cannot be amended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no space for error, the artist is much
like the Andean driver, maneuvering on a knife’s edge, aware that each carved
word will irrevocably form part of the novel’s opening scene. Above the lines
hangs the second sculptural element of the piece, a theatrical curtain that
introduces this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ruffled and
fragile, with lace-like lattice cuts, the constructed white ‘curtain’ is meant
to work simultaneously fragile as well as imposing and precarious in its weight and
irregularity. Like an avalanche, with its frayed layers casting craggy shadows,
the curtain portends the nebulous beginnings of something.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Prologue” was unveiled on August 10, 2013, officially launching the KONZEPTION
series that is projected for completion in summer 2014. A special-edition photo book documenting the KONZEPTION project will be released as a companion to "Humboldt's Riches" upon publication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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gibbinhouseresidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930748141935311382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580605780963164506.post-64514914076126406502013-08-09T09:08:00.000-07:002013-08-09T09:10:53.045-07:00Are We in the Dark Ages?? What is Happening to the Safety of Women and Children Today...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dear readers, <br />
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As many of you will have done this morning, I watched the news report on the latest mass shooting in Dallas.<br />
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A tragedy indeed. What stands out to me more than anything, however, is the fact that all the victims involved are women and children. Just as they were a few days earlier in California, and so many countless times in recent months. I don't want to think about how often my hometown Miami has made the national news in this regard in the past week alone...<br />
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Now, it would be easy to blame the guns involved. As a fervent supporter of gun control, my first reaction is the same. But this time, it feels as though this sad incident is part of a larger story. I remember every other time my stomach has lurched in recent weeks, reading about virginity tests in Georgia, women being held captive in basements, teens unnecessarily tasered to death, girls kidnapped or bullied into suicide, torrential rape threats on Twitter for putting Jane Austen on a bank note...and that's just the stuff that made the news in July! <br />
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Well, I step back to look at this wider picture and I start to wonder: are guns are really the only key to this spate of violence? And why aren't more people outraged? How is it we are still debating reproductive rights in a presidential election in 2012? <br />
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I realize my opinion is neither novel, nor, in its presented brevity, very academic. I could go into further debate, but rather than dwell on the unacceptable state of affairs where the rights of women and children are concerned, be it in India, Afghanistan, Zanzibar, South Africa, Georgia, England, Canada, the United States, etc...I want to focus on the good being done, on the small steps of insistent people who believe change is possible in our cyber-isolated/mobile phone-tranquilized world...<br />
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Example #1: Kristen Gillibrand's Military Reform Bill on Sexual Assault<br />
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<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/08/8532679/gillibrand-predicts-majority-and-maybe-60-her-military-reform-bill">http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/08/8532679/gillibrand-predicts-majority-and-maybe-60-her-military-reform-bill</a><br />
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Here's hoping Congress follows through. I will make it a point on this blog, as I did at its inception, to highlight cases as I come across them...</div>
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