tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53820236532467447562024-03-05T09:31:46.342-05:00Phillip James Mellenphillipjmellen [at] gmail [dot] comPhillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-17880884402195710402021-10-04T19:55:00.003-04:002021-10-04T19:55:38.913-04:00WEIRDOS CLOSES<center><span style="font-size: large;">WEIRDOS Closes <br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">I would like to start this post off by giving out some thank yous. First, I would like to thank everyone who made it out to see the show in person. And a big thank you to Dena Haden and the <a href="https://cocreativenb.org/" target="_blank">Co+ Creative Center</a> for the opportunity to show my work. It was a really personal show for me. And a bigger thanks to New Bedford, MA based writer, educator and all around awesome collaborator who penned and/or typed out a wonderful essay for my show, Nick LeBlanc. Clearly he has given a lot of thought and contemplation detailing a practice of truly sitting, not with only my paintings, but painting as a bigger whole and what it is like to take in a visual experience outside of oneself. I once called the essay a fitting "soundtrack" to my show and I say it again, so thanks again Nick! </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Here is Nick LeBlanc's essay for the show:</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">WEIRDO | Essay by Nick LeBlanc</span></center><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><center><span style="font-size: large;">I see a tree. Then I see a flower hanging from a branch of the tree. Then, I see the sky behind the tree. Streaks of blue squeaking through creaky criss-crossed limbs and yellowed tufts of leaves. Bits of brown and green matter fall into the water below and I lean back, sinking my elbows into the grass, deeply inhaling the floral air of early summertime. I wonder what it is all trying to communicate. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Seconds pass, minutes, maybe years, maybe decades. I roll over to the water and peak down, seeing a swirl of peach, orange, and green staring back up at me. I wonder four things in succession: Is that me? Am I that? Is that a flower? Am I awake? </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> Colors have life. Colors have depth. There is a universe in each color, an infinite undefined field. Sometimes, decisions are made which give shape to each universe of color. Dark black slashes, twisting and turning lines, shapes, geometric or otherwise. These definitions can exist on top of the color field, behind it, inside of it, parallel to it, and even in some combination of each one of these possibilities. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> But who determines the nature of their relationship? Who is the one making the decisions? Is it the one who adds definition to the infinite field of color? Or the one who witnesses it after the fact? Is it possible that they are one in the same? And if someone or something did make those decisions to put that definition in place, might they have had some precognitive relationship with that once-undefined-but-now-defined universe unto itself? Maybe they sensed the definition belonged but hadn’t interacted with the field yet and had lived their life in search of that moment. Maybe the field had grabbed them and pulled them in. Maybe the field had created them. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe, in other words, paintings paint themselves. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> We hang paintings on the wall, and we stare at them, sometimes leaning very close, tempting the painting to ripple as we blow on it or to leap from the canvas and drag us into its private little universe by our nose. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">In our universe, three dimensions are readily available: width, breadth, and height. Then there is the temporal space in which you experience those dimensions which is accounted for by movement, or more accurately, expansion. The universe expands into itself, pushing nothingness, or the non-universe outward from it. This expansion might be called time. An image, a still image, sits outside of this time field. We may use the dimensions available to us to decode, contextualize, and synthesize the abstract information of an image and turn it into something we recognize as “familiar” or “evocative.” But is that internal relationship with the image the same thing as the image itself? Does our understanding of that image somehow make it real? Would that image exist if we weren’t there to capture it or translate it into some new form of representation? </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">If it really is me that I see when I peek into that water and watch the rippling swirl of peach, orange, and green, who or what is the thing which defines the “me” which I am wondering about? Am I the one responsible for determining the negative space which lives around that swirl and provides form to the individual infinite universes of each of its colors? Or maybe it’s just a reflection of a flower, the reproductive organ of an angiosperm molded by time and natural selection to manipulate pollinators into doing the dirty business of fertilization for them. And if it is just that, light reflected from a flower bouncing off the water and burying itself in my eyes, how different am I from that thing anyway? </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes with intensity of weather—a heavy rain, an intense drought—flowers can bend and change shape. Sometimes they look like letters. Letters have personality, some are rigid and vertical, some are short and sloping, some double back on themselves or naughtily dip below a sentence line. Our names are made of letters. Words are made of letters. Weird squiggly abstract symbols which carry meaning and personality. Often, the personality of a single letter may not match the inherent meaning of the word, even if it appears multiple times. What does the letter P mean to you? How about a word that begins and ends with it? How about a name that does the same? </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Imagine wearing that name as a mask. Does it look like how you feel? Does it represent the same colors that make up your own island universe? And if not, what color do you feel? Hopefully something warm, like the pleasant warmth of a steaming mug of hot coffee filling your belly. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">I lean back under the tree, shifting my focus from the sky to the branch, to the flower, and finally I close my eyes. I imagine what I might look like wearing my new mask and how the water might reflect that image back at me. Maybe I’m dreaming. In dreams, everything is about the dreamer, even the dreamt version of some familiar person or place. It is never about the place or the person. It is only about the dreamer’s relationship to the place and person, both in symbol and in praxis. I dream in color, and I often dream of water.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">I close my eyes tighter and imagine leaving my spot under the tree and looking over into the water. I see a swirl of peach, orange, and green. I lean into it, tempting it to pull me in, dangling my nose just above the water. I lean too far and fall into the depths. More peach, more orange, more green. They swim around me as I sink. Seconds, minutes, decades, I’m sinking. The colors fade. The form that outlines my body fades. I fade.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Whether dreaming or awake, I—or whatever remains of I—open my eyes. First, it’s dark. Then, there is light. Then there is something in the distance, but it is blurry. I move closer. Something like water is rippling above me, or maybe above us. The rippling stops and we can see clearly, a collection of colors defined by negative space…our own face staring back at us. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6SRoTy8aDn1WLpDlzarknrmFMVm6sxVZOQrwqSAvJoJkQLGYoxkiRlK5mPwGbtRrd1dYNbDWNlm-0zyRDgeCtLVryIPZuyhBtIZoYdlhEqF4KJ-ZC8wns02hn7TBN8UUPo9mc_QX1_6B/s2048/Twilight+Weirdo+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6SRoTy8aDn1WLpDlzarknrmFMVm6sxVZOQrwqSAvJoJkQLGYoxkiRlK5mPwGbtRrd1dYNbDWNlm-0zyRDgeCtLVryIPZuyhBtIZoYdlhEqF4KJ-ZC8wns02hn7TBN8UUPo9mc_QX1_6B/w640-h640/Twilight+Weirdo+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Promo collage</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">7 x 7 inches</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">paper collage, marker</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">2021</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"></span></center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDFJ6Tp5tBRkZq69Cw_CAwTvUF-Eoljuqs4ljRV-QwvML6QEi5fVTN3m_Tt_QjLozd41-vYjyztwG2ycyoY2fMVPA7H2j-F29yuJHckr2yPeAfGN2u3kn42oUor0kiMCmpTrvLNOu7l_G/s960/Nick+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDFJ6Tp5tBRkZq69Cw_CAwTvUF-Eoljuqs4ljRV-QwvML6QEi5fVTN3m_Tt_QjLozd41-vYjyztwG2ycyoY2fMVPA7H2j-F29yuJHckr2yPeAfGN2u3kn42oUor0kiMCmpTrvLNOu7l_G/w640-h480/Nick+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLT6xVagN6vmAZATTnushxt5Hgu325cU6UJvKZ3yGZF2sS98sd-KtNqpseNiFOS2YncLrCoMG9zK3YxHYP4L5Aqx5rl_W6SdYJclY3SDHQPhfwc9w8rpw3HPIh1S-XMkCunNuIvnQYP4z2/s960/PJM+WEIRDOS+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLT6xVagN6vmAZATTnushxt5Hgu325cU6UJvKZ3yGZF2sS98sd-KtNqpseNiFOS2YncLrCoMG9zK3YxHYP4L5Aqx5rl_W6SdYJclY3SDHQPhfwc9w8rpw3HPIh1S-XMkCunNuIvnQYP4z2/w640-h480/PJM+WEIRDOS+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">For images of selected paintings from the show please visit the WEIRDOS tab on this blog here: <a href="http://www.phillipjmellen.com/p/weirdos-2020-2021.html">WEIRDOS 2020-2021</a> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Do seek out one of Nick's projects over at <a href="https://www.domesticatedprimate.com/about" target="_blank">Domesticated Primate Independent Publishers</a></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">and again, Thank You! </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">........<br /></span></center>
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Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-62162326154567471132021-09-07T07:21:00.002-04:002021-09-07T07:24:29.156-04:00Recent guest on the Southcoast Artists Index In-Focus Podcast<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRhnE2ROqD0_Fs6RYRn-orosA1L75uQ80gpsFynrswBtp5YbR6Etegjqu9_cM1uwhKiD0EM1vLGefMZYN4mCNc2a8mSX4cHOyAoyvI3NC-ITuUvQwgc7TCX3mk_IiNhXkrloyQopUi0SB/s1440/SCAI+IFP+Square.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRhnE2ROqD0_Fs6RYRn-orosA1L75uQ80gpsFynrswBtp5YbR6Etegjqu9_cM1uwhKiD0EM1vLGefMZYN4mCNc2a8mSX4cHOyAoyvI3NC-ITuUvQwgc7TCX3mk_IiNhXkrloyQopUi0SB/w400-h400/SCAI+IFP+Square.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was a return guest on the Southcoast Artists Index In-Focus podcast. It was an honor to be invited back on the show by host Ron Fortier. In the episode we talk more about my work and my own podcast as well as my short poems. I had a good conversation with Ron, I hope you'll give a listen.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Check out the episode here: <a href="https://theartistsindex.com/podcast-episode-61-phillip-j-mellen/" target="_blank">Phillip J. Mellen In-Focus podcast interview </a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Big thanks to Ron and crew, great things they are doing for the project.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">................ </span><br /></p>Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-64991476232294504342021-09-06T17:25:00.000-04:002021-09-06T17:25:56.351-04:00WEIRDOS at Co+ Creative Center in New Bedford, MA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBaGIMcqgD6n76GGC1FiZoCPEJ7h_aNTES7W7LnceHIVxo5EDUkY2maF-VIHtJFobhUOsc93xUlBDARgc-EhLbdR3OyH3wV60vC0VfWegm_pIMT1B5CLUUqoHg8VVxsVNNKiT2QRrygIW/s2048/Harvest+Weirdo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2046" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBaGIMcqgD6n76GGC1FiZoCPEJ7h_aNTES7W7LnceHIVxo5EDUkY2maF-VIHtJFobhUOsc93xUlBDARgc-EhLbdR3OyH3wV60vC0VfWegm_pIMT1B5CLUUqoHg8VVxsVNNKiT2QRrygIW/w400-h400/Harvest+Weirdo.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">WEIRDOS | New Paintings by Phillip J. Mellen</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">@ Co+ Creative Center New Bedford, MA</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opening Reception Thursday September 9th 6 - 9 pm AHA! Night<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">137 Union Street</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">New Bedford, MA 02740</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMyhL3udKKA9UddjxGnkGWzr1ZxPChMxgCypCIbBP9fjTBWVI2o_XqP_xrbVjdOK7URUWIzHQ80THLOdOqNEkViYGG3gZrqNtJ6sufql680dVA2LWGXJX_yYAyixSJ9Aop-5qGm_o3i4Z/s2048/WEIRDOS+2+NBL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMyhL3udKKA9UddjxGnkGWzr1ZxPChMxgCypCIbBP9fjTBWVI2o_XqP_xrbVjdOK7URUWIzHQ80THLOdOqNEkViYGG3gZrqNtJ6sufql680dVA2LWGXJX_yYAyixSJ9Aop-5qGm_o3i4Z/w640-h480/WEIRDOS+2+NBL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> My solo show, WEIRDOS, features 13 recent paintings along with 2 recent collages.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Essay by New Bedford based writer and educator, Nick LeBlanc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope to see you at the reception!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for your interest and support! <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /></div><br /><p></p>Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-32791199773548588932020-09-26T04:29:00.000-04:002020-09-26T04:29:54.687-04:00WAY OUT International Exhibition<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUOrXVF6DpT0oJvFiKS7AIVORN6gHDQ_QLSSDtxSsbASWj_gIHuWJRKPQqffBUp9rPHLACCu9V6fH6IpSfxh86C6z548TP8je0YX78MnzIH8Q9MTAqxgdbOhcuPDYc5apP54trEVrLHPI/s1772/Way+Out+flyer+close+crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="1219" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUOrXVF6DpT0oJvFiKS7AIVORN6gHDQ_QLSSDtxSsbASWj_gIHuWJRKPQqffBUp9rPHLACCu9V6fH6IpSfxh86C6z548TP8je0YX78MnzIH8Q9MTAqxgdbOhcuPDYc5apP54trEVrLHPI/w440-h640/Way+Out+flyer+close+crop.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Honored and grateful to be in this show with artists I admire and am inspired by.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curated by Ludovic Dervillez at La Grange Gallery Cernay-Les-Reims, France! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opening reception September 26th 2020</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Show runs through October 4th.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Ludovic and La Grange Gallery! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">........... </span><br /></p>Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-12729705818285561952019-09-10T13:37:00.000-04:002019-09-10T13:37:14.604-04:00Studio Apartments Album<span style="font-size: large;">Studio Apartments is a collection of poetry-centric recordings created
from July 2008 into August 2019. Recorded in my apartment. Recorded
about dating. Recorded about painting. And a few thoughts and things
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you find something in these tracks. Enough to perhaps pick-up the album for your collection. But most of all, thanks for listening!
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm excited to invite you to my first solo show in three years. If you're in the New Bedford area please head over to Winston Gallery for the reception on Saturday June 8th 4 -7pm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kilburn Mill at Clarks Cove</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was recently interviewed by Erika b Hess on her I Like Your Work podcast. It's a wonderful show and I'm honored to be among the great guests she has had on ILYW! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please head on over and listen in to our art chat about my work and inspiration and art projects other than painting. You can find it here: <a href="https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/post/eps-31-artist-phillip-j-mellen-generosity-making-and-painting" target="_blank">Phillip J. Mellen on I Like Your Work podcast</a></span></div>
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-6489700498260412622019-01-02T15:28:00.001-05:002019-01-02T15:28:50.384-05:00Untitled | Favorite Sounds<span style="font-size: large;">Facebook has proven to be a very good thing for my projects and studio life in general. I've been a part of the art community there for six or seven years now and as a result been involved in many collaboration projects, and art exhibitions. These experiences have enriched my life and art practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, on to a new collab? This fresh audio composition started as a facebook post calling for fb friends to list their favorite sounds in said post's comment thread. Once collected over the course of five days it dawned on me: "I should compile the list of sounds as sounds." And not to simply sit in the silence of a fb post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I went over to freesound.org to search for the
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kerry, and Jennifer both commented with a common loon.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Gwen, Jennifer, and Donna commented with a crackling fire.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jay, and Suzanne with quiet/silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jessica, J Rebecca, Lee Ann, Valerie, and Ruth commented with waves/the sea/ocean.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mike commented with a distant train.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sabrina commented with walking in snow.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Carol, Julie, Peter, and John commented with bird song/wood thrush/birds in the early morning/wren banter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Clair commented with seagulls.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Janice with bugling elk.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Richard commented with skateboard ollie pop and land.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Paul commented with electric guitar.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Some extra supporting cast of sounds edited in by me.</span><br />
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(Elk 3 sound file I also got on freesound.org here: <a href="https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreesound.org%2Fpeople%2FHyperionn%2Fsounds%2F250188%2F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="https://freesound.org/people/Hyperionn/sounds/250188/">freesound.org/people/Hyperionn/sounds/250188/</a> - Thanks, Hyperionn! <br />
Used under creative commons license: <a href="https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F3.0%2F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">P.s. Below is a link to an article written about the gallery and gallery owner Victor DaSilva. The article shines a light on DaSilva's Philosophy on what his gallery is and will continue to be. Worth a read: <a href="https://www.southcoasttoday.com/entertainmentlife/20181206/winston-birth-of-new-art-gallery" target="_blank">Article on the SouthCoast Today website by Steven Froias. Thanks Steven!</a></span></div>
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-14784394182376542752018-12-09T19:04:00.000-05:002018-12-09T19:04:03.838-05:00Holiday Music | From my Art Studio to Yours<span style="font-size: large;">Holiday(s) Greetings! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been painting a lot these days in preparation for my upcoming solo-show loosely scheduled sometime in the Spring months, but now that it's still cold, 32* at the time of this post, and the holidays are upon us I thought I would send along a gift. This is not visual but an audio track inspired by the Christmas season, on my end of the celebration. But if you have ever been on horseback, rickshaw, or even helped Santa steer his sleigh, I bet you can find joy in this 'Christmas Carol' I'm sure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The upper right-hand corner of the player, that's where the gift part of this holiday post comes in, you can download this track for free if you are so moved. I would also love to hear what you think, or even be so honored if this song made its way onto your holiday music playlist. (a holiday wish of mine.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over at the Studio Break website you can see 10 new and recent works as part of the podcast interview here: <a href="http://studiobreak.com/phillip-j-mellen-2/" target="_blank">Studio Break interview with Phillip J. Mellen </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please read on for a few tidbits of info that describe the follow-up interview: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in August 2014 I was a guest on David Linneweh's 'Studio Break' podcast, and as a fellow podcaster I was excited, and a bit nervous, to be on the other side of studio questions. I actually did a lot of reflecting on my process and my personal history as an artist prior to that episode because I knew David's format pretty well at that point and wanted to look into my past, present, and heck, future of art-making. It was a great experience and I'm grateful for having been on the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fast-forward 4 years. David reached out again to invite me back on Studio Break and I thought is was a good time to jump back into some studio questions with him. This time around I virtually dove right in with minimal pre-planning and thinking. This approach offered a more open and casual conversation, and I somehow kept my train of thought through the majority of the interview, nice ups for me, no? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, in the follow-up interview we talked about my new paintings and some of my previous experiences with my 'new since the last interview' collage work. Also in the conversation was the topic of my artist interview podcast 'Ahtcast.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The timing was good, I have been doing a lot of painting in my studio, and I have also been at my desk working on my podcast as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So I invite you to head on over to Studio Break and catch up with what I've been doing lately! You can find the interview here: <a href="http://studiobreak.com/phillip-j-mellen-2/" target="_blank">Studio Break interview with Phillip J. Mellen</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And also a huge thank you to David Linneweh and Studio Break! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It appears that I have another series on my hands. I must say that so far these have allowed me to be a bit more spontaneous in method due to the format etc. The 9 x 12 inch size is something that I can pull from a watercolor sketchbook I have and then work through building the page with the allotted freedom of marker and cut paper. I have even taken this set up on the go, which is where these actually started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am still helping to take care of my aging mother, which I have mentioned in my last blog post, so outside of the visits with her I have found less time to work on image-making. Things in my romantic relationship has also been going well. These situations hold an important place in my life, as does my old friend art-making, so one day I decided to select certain materials to take along with me while spending time with my loved ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In fact, "The mountain has its moons" was sketched out while spending time with the woman I am seeing while she quietly read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found a spark in working this way, I then chose to work from the sketchbook over the next few days, churning out the other two images in this post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I may have mentioned in the past that listening to music is a big part of my process. Many a title has come from an existing song title, lyric or band name. In this case I pulled the title of the bottom collage from the band of the same name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps the music will reveal where I was coming from while making the collage wearing that title. Or why these images come out at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could say more, perhaps I will post more when I witness more from my process and get to know myself more through it. As for now, I hope you enjoy these new images, and some of the words attached to them. </span></div>
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-7265815537305795772018-01-25T15:08:00.000-05:002018-03-09T09:13:57.263-05:00One year later | the Kintsugi image<span style="font-size: large;">Hello. It has been just over a year since I last made a blog post. I thought my blog was dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hard to believe it's been that long, I guess the year went by pretty fast. Truth is I have been making work, however, and perhaps it's time to document my studio experiences once again? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2016 I made quite a large number of collage works and in the Summer of that year I had a solo-show titled: Soliloquy. The show was at the Ropeworks gallery in New Bedford, Massachusetts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, I'm back to working and have been cutting up paper again. Not without a great deal of pre-thinking about shape, color, and line in collage. The above piece reminded me of an article I read about Kintsugi, a centuries old Japanese practice of 'repairing' broken pottery. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the work in progress collage below, that I've been working on the past 2 days, is what I was thinking about as stress-fractures. I don't usually start from such a specific place of departure, but I guess I felt a bit 'broken' from not having been in the studio for such a long time. Also from going through some non-studio hardships that go along with caring for an aging parent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To help the design, if you will, for this new collage was the line-work from Cocoon, which held essentially abstract formal qualities previously. With the new collage I wanted to take these cracks and hold the larger compositional elements together with color, instead of lacquer and powdered gold as done with the Kintsugi method on pottery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cracks in our experiences, be they portals to enlightenment, strength, pain or fear. They are what is making us stronger, I feel. And not just in objects, but in life too as the enrichment of our experiences and bringing greater value, and balance, to what is important, beautiful, and sacred.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To be honest, I think I went a bit too far with the new collage, but on the other hand it was out of my hands. I started with a narrative(?) element, and got lost in the process, something took over for this one. What I ended up with as a celebration image. I think this collage will end up being an important piece moving forward. I'm still greatly interested in the technique of Kintsugi and all of it's possibilities in thought, action, and in craft. In art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am pleased to be a part of this group show curated by Kimberly Rowe taking place in Berkeley, CA. <br />I am showing along side of artists that I respect and am inspired by. Thanks Kimberly for putting an fabulous group together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 2323 Fourth St. Berkeley, CA 94710.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Show runs: </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">November 17th, 2016 through January 8th, 2017</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A group show curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taking place at Corridor Projects (divisible) Dayton, Ohio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1001 E. 2nd Street, Building 100, Second Floor B-C Door, Dayton, Ohio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite happy to be in this show! Thanks for the honor, Jeffrey Cortland Jones. All the best to my fellow artists in the show! </span></div>
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<span class="_4n-j fsl" style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show">409 E 13th Street</span></span><br />
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-7371220235480891762016-02-25T09:14:00.000-05:002016-02-25T10:12:18.088-05:00Musings on new collage work. 2016.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"> Musings on new collage work. 2016.</span></span></div>
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to reach the landscapes of where you begin, not the reflection of what I
pretend.” – From the song “Summertime” by The Fire Theft. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">I begin with
colors not unlike my acrylic paint palette. Selected colored papers, as well as
earthy imagery, are invited into my collage process. I cut shapes as biomorphic
as possible that often give way to sharper angles. These hard edges, for
instance, stem from my abundance of time spent indoors meditating the outdoors,
and vice-versa. These seemingly disparate states are automatically unfolding,
and are the framework of my approach in image making and the steering through
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">As my
collage imagery is actualizing, I continue to render these as naturally and
earthy as any idea I have ever had. However, looking back, I have noticed
that nature has always been a part of my work. Though the previous ‘scapes derived
from the act of play, memories fade so they are a bit fuzzy to me now.
Presently, I record new</span> <span style="line-height: 106%;">subconscious
imagery of a land I have never seen but can’t help but dream about. We are now
meeting face to face. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">In exercising
the practice of following visual prompts, I continue to compose lush and
imaginative places. I’m pointing to nature, in a different way, without the
poetry of words that my previous works may have elicited. This new work is more
personal, though the opposite may be true, but in the end who knows? I will change
that statement tomorrow, if it ever gets here. </span></span></div>
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begun is a somehow story being told in these works. I record my thoughts/ideas
as verbatim as possible. These pictures derive from what I think and feel,
and/or what I think that I think and feel. This new imagery is an investigation
into the different sides of myself that draw from the spiritual effects of
places I’m at, and those I have yet to visit. I find that going there is
possible because tomorrow hasn’t happened yet, and it never will. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"></span><span style="line-height: 106%;"></span> Oral history</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> 18 inch diameter (approx.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> paper collage</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> 2016</span></span></div>
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body of work is, in part, a record of what I envision tomorrow to be like.
Before I know it, it’s already here and I am usually wrong. As I continue to
focus on these themes, they always change. I have a responsibility to accept
the unpredictable nature of this process. Only to find that these collages are
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the safety on interior spaces. Rather than far off places. So I took the rock
home. I’m still nowhere.</span></span></div>
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Matthias Bausch / Dresden, Germany<br />
Karl Bielik / London, UK<br />
Edward Clayton / London, UK<br />
Judith Farr / Lleida, Spain<br />
Marielle Hehir / London, UK<br />
Erin Lawlor / London, UK<br />
Jai Llewellyn / Glasgow, UK<br />
Phillip J Mellen / NY, USA<br />
Fran O'Neill / NY, USA<br />
Winnie Seifert / Dresden, Germany<br />
Sabine Tress / Bonn, Germany
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-63182979564355574832015-07-27T08:40:00.000-04:002017-01-16T18:34:22.456-05:00GOING BIG NYC<span style="font-size: large;">I am in a group show opening this Thursday, July 30th, titled GOING BIG! The show features 111 artists in total, from around the US, and is not to be missed. If you are in the New York City area, I would like to invite you to the show. GOING BIG is on view through August 28. More info below.</span><br />
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-13537607118286575892015-06-25T19:12:00.000-04:002015-06-25T19:12:27.020-04:00The Usual Suspects <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If find myself in that state of mind as of late. While painting this year, I have noticed echoes from my work from previous years. Specific works are etched in my brain and I had no idea they were still there, meandering and fermenting even still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I decided to dig up some pics, I apologize for the poor quality in the images as some of the paintings are no longer available to re-shoot, and set them here together with each other. This post places the paintings in pairs as I saw fit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This part of my current painting process has been validating and inspiring. I hope you can recognize and experience a similar interesting tour through these works that represent some of my efforts in recent years. Thank you. </span></div>
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2013</div>
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Imaginary friends</div>
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-69639021578291700562015-04-11T22:24:00.000-04:002017-01-16T18:37:03.820-05:00Family Ties: Brooklyn | Dallas<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my paintings will be at this wonderful group show curated by Bonny Leibowitz and Julie Torres! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm honored to be a part of a show of this caliber with so many artists whose work I know and love. </span><br />
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Albert Weaver, Alex Paik, Alexis Granwell, Ann Glazer, Anne Russinof,
Ashley Garrett, Austin Thomas, Bailey K Chapman, Barbara Laube, Becky
Yazdan, Ben Pritchard, Ben Terry, Bonny Leibowitz, Brett Dyer, Brian
Edmonds, Caetlynn Booth, Cande Aguilar, Cecilia Salama, Chance Dunlap,
Christina Tenaglia, Christopher Moss, Christopher Rose, Claudia Tienan,
Daniel John Gadd, David Michael Connolly, David T Miller, Deanna Wood,
Douglas Florian, Elizabeth Gourlay, Elizabeth Riley, Ellen Letcher,
Emily Berger, Enrico Gomez, Eric Mavko, Erica Stevens, Fran Holstrom,
Fred Gutzeit, Georgia Elrod, Ginny Casey, Giovanni Valderas, Gwendolyn
Plunkett, James Prez, Jamie Powell, Jason Rohlf, Jay Henderson, Jeanne
Neal, Jeff Parrott, Jennifer Shepard, Jenny Leigh Jones, Jill Vasileff,
Joan Mellon, John Kesling, Jonathan Cowan, Julia L Trinh, Julia
Schwartz, Julie Alexander, Julie S. Graham, Julon Pinkston, Justine
Frischmann, Karen Schifano, Karl Bielik, Karla Areli, Katherine Mojzsis,
Kevin Andrew Curran, Kristen Biles, Ky Anderson, Kyle Gallup, Lael
Marshall, Lauren Collings, Leeza Meksin, Leslie Kerby, Levi Haske Liz
Ainslie, Liz Atzberger, MaDora Frey, Maria Britton, Marian Brunn Smith,
Mary Judge, Matthew Neil Gehring, Maxwell Stevens, Mayra Barraza, Meg
Atkinson, Melissa Capasso, Melissa Staiger, Michael Frank Blair, Nancy
Ferro, Paul Behnke, Peggy Epner, Phillip J. Mellen, Polly Shindler,
Rachael Gorchov, RE Cox, Rebecca Litt, Rebecca Murtaugh, Roberto
Munguia, Ryan Goolsby, Ryan Michael Ford, Sally Warren, Sean Montgomery,
Stephen B. MacInnis, Suhee Wooh, Susan Carr, Susan Cheal, Teresa
Ekasala, Todd Camplin, Vicki Owen, Vicki Sher, Wendy Klemperer, Will
Hutnick, William Crump, William Eckhardt Kohler, William Lawler, Zak
Vreeland.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Family Ties: Brooklyn | Dallas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 500X Gallery<br /> 500 Exposition Ave.<br /> Dallas TX. 75226</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.500x.org/" target="_blank">www.500x.org</a> </span><br />
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For images of work in the show please visit Bonny Leibowitz's blog post here: <a href="http://bonnyleibowitz.blogspot.com/2015/03/family-ties-brooklyn-i-dallas.html" target="_blank">Family Ties</a><br />
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Phillip J. Mellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025489966909987125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382023653246744756.post-42818461324884023222015-03-09T15:31:00.000-04:002015-03-09T15:31:29.331-04:00The mixed media tapes podcast<span style="font-size: large;">I want to introduce my latest podcast effort: The mixed-media tapes. The series is now complete for listening. More on the project:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The mixed-media tapes is a short
artist talk series based on word and phrase prompts. I have invited
visual artists from around the world to share their thoughts and stories
based on their selected prompt(s) from a list I have given them. Two of the prompts are: 'metaphysics,' and another is 'the finished painting.' Plenty more at the blog. I hope you enjoy this as much as I
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your host, Phillip J. Mellen. Cheers!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">For a snippet, please listen to the short 3 minute teaser below. If you like what you hear, I invite you to check out the blog and give a listen to the full features: <a href="http://themixedmediatapes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the mixed-media tapes podcast</a></span></span><br />
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