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'80s Fanfold Computer Paper as Wallpaper

Added 2022-03-26 23:11:37 +0000 UTC

For some days now I have finally been going into the fat box of 1980s fanfold computer paper that my friend Joel Rose gave me when I was living in New York in the '90s. Joel published a literary magazine called Between C and D: New Writing From the Lower Eastside Fiction magazine, printed on this paper and wrapped in a plastic bag. My stories appeared in two issues, and they had been submitted while I was still in L.A.

When I first found this cottage mid-January (and before being able to get in on Feb 1st) my kid Imogen showed me an Instagram account where a group had turned their nook into a monthly changing gallery, which was such an inspiration to see. So I started these paintings on the fanfold computer paper; they are all acrylic but I am using it like watercolor, really, and I took this picture yesterday while a new one was drying and that painting is already added to the wall. So far, for 5 of these 7, I have used Florine Stettheimer paintings as an inspiration-- I happen to have a book of her work called Manhattan Fantastica, and am flipping through it and doing a take on any painting that grabs me. I like her "naive" almost "outsider" style and the inspiration goes with the light cheerful feeling here in this nook. They are tacked to the wall and I like that I may change the "wallpaper" whenever I get tired of it.

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