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Teacup for Reading Tea Leaves

  Teacups collected for Reading Tea Leaves, an installation in progress. Visit Anatomy of an Idea to learn more.

  I collected teacups, made in porcelain, fine, and bone china, from 10/10/10 through the winter of 2014.
  I purchased them in thrift stores and some were gifted to me. In exchange for a teacup   I give a matted sketch from one of my sketchbooks.
  My goal of 300 teacups was reached December 19, 2014.
  Next the insides of each teacup were painted and flecked with gold leaf.
  Each teacup was secured to their saucer with a hook attached to the back.
  Reading Tea Leaves needs text in order to be completed.
  300 prayers, typed on tags with an old typewriter, in underway.


  A FEW EXAMPLES OF CHINA HOUSES and PATTERNS REPRESENTED IN THE ARTWORK
  Arabia Sudmi (Finland) Blue Asters
  Bawo and Dotter (France)
  Chikaramachi (Japan)
  Dansk
  Dibbern (Germany)
  Dutchess
  Enco
  Elizabethan
  Epiag Royal (Czechoslovakia)
  Gardner (Russia)
  K.P.M. Berlin (Germany)
  Meissen – Germany
  Lenox
  Lily of the Valley
  Limages
  Longton (England) Coldough
  Mintons
  Nippon
  Nymphenburg (Bavaria)
  Noritake, Nikko and Narumi (Japan)
  Occupied Japan
  Porsgrund (Norway)
  Royal Dover
  Ridgway (England) Royal Vale
  Royal Stewart
  Spode
  Staffordshire and Crown Staffordshire
  Walpole
  Wedgewood
  Windsor



PAINTING
1991-1995
1996-2000
2001-2005
2006-2010
2011-2014

MINI-SERIES
1990 Peppers, Seeds, and Rotting Vegetables
1996 What I painted when I could not paint
2005 For the Birds
2007 Butterflies are free
2011 The Year The Permafrost Softened

WORKS ON PAPER
1988-1989 Chairs
1989-1990 Umbrellas
1991-1998
1997 The Chase
1998 Dismantled Sketchbooks
1999 Ragdale Series
2000-2004 Collage Art
2002 Charcoal
2000-2004 Figure Drawing
2000-2005 Project Art
2000 Spinning Plates
2002 Fan Collages
2001 Screaming In Places Where I Can't Be heard
2004 Wonderscapes
2005-2006 The Story of the Universe
2008 Buddha Was Here
2009 Life On Hold (NFS)
2010-2016 The Demandments (NFS)

MIXED MEDIUM
1995-1998 Sectioned panels
1997-1998 White Paintings and Furry Work
1998 Red Dot Series
2001-2009 Wax, Wire, Gold, Globe, and Glass
2001 How Things Pile Up
2002 Retablos, oil on metal

OBJECT ART
2002-present Project Items
Historic-present Fane Items
1550-1560 Ancestral Figure Drawings

INSTALLATION
2002-2016 Paradise
2006 Negative to Positive
2007-present Four walls*
2008 Found
2010-present Teacups for Reading Tea Leaves
2011-present Waterworks*
2000-present My Crates

PERFORMATIVE
2004 White Sands
2006 Blue Clouds

LIBRARY OF BOOKS 2000-present
Painting Inventory
Book of Days
Whitewash
The Ragdale Book
Brain Book
Ransom Magazine
Box of Tears
Pocket Full of Cries
Europe
Mongolia
Flower Book
Retablos: How I Got From Here to Here
The Fane Pamphlet
Scroll of Influence
The Story of Red Trees
Red Trees History
Red Trees Chronicle
Red Trees Prayerbook
Red Trees Kakemono
Book of Leaves
Elemental Communion
Found: Journals from the future
Symbol Book
Books of Sense
Organ Origin
The Wedding Program
The Wedding Book
I Must Go
Ladder Book*
Book of Stairs*
The Studio Visit Playbill*
Flower Book 2*
...continued

STUDIO PRACTICE
Studio 1: Dayton and Blackhawk
Studio 2: Hubbard and House
Project scouting and on location
Works in progress
Exhibits, happenings, homes
Studio clippings and announcements
Artist

WORLD RIVERS PROJECT overview
World Rivers: Curtain
World Rivers: Participants
World Rivers: Rivers
World Rivers: Cloth
Visit the River Log

TEXT ARCHIVE
Artwork
Installation
Books

* documentation is forthcoming
This archive is a creative history spanning two decades.
The documentation is comprised of many technological
formats ranging from slides, 4x5s, photographs, and
straddles the introduction of digital formatting of the time.
The goal was to preserve images, whether high or low resolution.






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