Penny Crichton Art

We all have a gazillion favourites. Think of it - your favourite beach, pizza, hair colour, shoe style, relative, lettuce, guitar, restaurant, time of day, and so on. One of my favourite Photo Mediums is B&W Postcards, and I’ve collected them on my travels for some time. One day I realized that I generally have 7 categories of B&W Postcards. I made each category into a photo collage and made a Beach Box Assemblage Art out of those seven. They are shown in the Beach Box photo from the top, moving left to right: Women in Film; Graphics; Love; Men in Film; The Mind; Motion and Fitness in centre. The top of the display box was set on its side to fix a grill that holds a magnifying photo filter lens, removable from the top to view more detail. Two curios are fixed onto a shelf to break up the pattern - a metal Hollywood thimble with Mann’s Chinese Theatre plaque and a metal thimble of the Wizard of Oz’s Tin Man with his Oil can. Such is the mind of ‘me’.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Who would have thought the children’s novel of “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll would have been so hugely popular even today? The many Illustrators of the “Adventures  in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking Glass” (1871) are more than 100. I’ve always been fascinated by the story and the illustrations. The best known Illustrator is English born, (Sir) John Tenniel, who created the first 42 images for Carroll (though initially he only chose 1 of a Humpty Dumpty-like sketch). Some countries first banned the book saying that it was an insult to have humans speak as (lesser) animals and some were banned due to their controversial nature regarding drugs and derogatory characterizations of various groups. But today it still lives on, and has been translated into 175 languages. My Assemblage Art piece is dedicated to a plethora of talented Illustrators that keep on pushing their artistic image flare of this important book into the modern world.