Buried treasure: a concept created by Seth Apter

For the third year in a row, I, along with my constant companion

Bleubeard,

am answering the call to unearth buried treasure, a concept conceived by Seth Apter. Although this sounded like an easy task, it was more difficult than I at first suspected. Since I am looking back, I must also take into account what I am working on at the moment, as well as where my art is heading.


I've been making altered art for just over eight years. Granted, I had no training, so I was pretty raw in the beginning. In 2007, I started making collages. Above is one of those collages


Bleubeard took a special interest in.



I was working in altered books in 2008, and here is an example of a collage I call The Ringmaster's Ticket.


That same year I made this collage I call Behind the Eight Ball.


In 2009 I received a sewing machine and my focus expanded to include fabric. The first time I made a gelatin plate was in August, 2009.


I got so excited playing with the process, I had trouble stopping. I used everything from ink to paint to glazes.


I made gelatin prints, many of them monoprints, from both fabric and paper.


Every monoprint and ghost print in the above photo was made using various fabrics.


Above are examples of both paper and fabric gelatin prints.


The bird was masked using blue and beige glazes on muslin.


Those same glazes were used to make a nature inspired print.


These two leaves on checkered cotton


looked a bit like feathers when printed on a dictionary page.

I hope you have enjoyed a few of my buried treasures. Feel free to look around and check out my tutorials if you have time. However, I'm sure you will want to visit many other blogs too, and it all begins at Seth's The Altered Page. Enjoy and stop back again anytime.