Picto Glyphs Series by C. Mehrl Bennett 2015

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Go to my Etsy Site if interested in purchasing one of these limited edition accordian books:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/cmehrlbennett

Asemic Shadows accordian book – Cheryl Penn and C. Mehrl Bennett

Cheryl Penn is an artist living in South Africa. See her book arts at THIS BLOG

We have exchanged mail art and have done a collaborative book together once before. This time Cheryl mailed six original 3.5 x 2.5 inch sections of a painting she did, along with a color photo of the original full sized painting. I scanned the six painted pieces and digitally dissected the color photo to create more page images for our book. Then I added my linear pictoglyphs, using her paintings as inspiration.

 

I inkjet printed nine of these, sprayed with UV protective coating, added varying collage elements, and different cord colors and beads to secure the book shut for storage. It was a real pleasure to work with Cheryl Penn’s painting for my fourth collaborative accordian book. Another version of my own glyph accordian book is available on ETSY (click here if interested).

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Etsy and SOUNDCLOUD

My ETSY website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cmehrlbennett

includes visual poetry items and occasionally jewelry items I make.

I enjoy making little books and artistamps, but those get distributed via snail mail to other mailartists.
Often I will gift the jewelry to friends and family, so jewelry does not remain on Etsy for long.

THIS SUMMER I’ve begun to create short recordings by mixing sounds I record, my madeup songs, poems, etc…
and a those audio files are can be accessed for free BY CLICKING HERE
A couple of these were sent to Rod Summers to use in an audio compilation he is making this summer.