The Mourning Strip

I am currently working with collage, letters, advertisement, and scanning in the creation of a new series of work titled The Mourning Strip. This work examines how humor can be used as a tool for mourning and acceptance of death as natural.

Below is a quick scan of one of the prints in progress, For When It Hearse The Most.

Image: Nicholas Fenell, 2012. For When It Hearse The Most.

After A Response to Decoration Day

In an attempt to keep an active and creative mind post graduation from the Cleveland Institute of Art, I have spent the past year dancing around and stepping in and out of different mediums and projects while learning to adjust to full time employment with Starbucks, great involvement with The Sculpture Center, and the necessity of time for mental rest. 

I have a thoroughly active website that is updated with images of current projects. Recently, I uploaded images from my performance picnic piece A Response to Decoration Day. Unfortunately, the turnout was dismal and the white roses for each of the graves were not received on their designated date. Regardless, the planning of A Response to Decoration Day and its process from creation of invites to hand-delivery of each invite in a personal and intimate setting can be seen as an ultimately success first foray into performance art, via a picnic. 

In the coming year (2013) I have two major curatorial and fundraising efforts underway ensuring active involvement in the arts. I will continuing updating both this blog and my official website as I continue to forge my path in the deep and well rooted forest of the art world.

Image: Nicholas Fenell. 2012. A Response to Decoration Day.