Sound bites series
I have been using 45rpm records as canvases since I started my “ART ON 45” project in 2015. For ART ON 45 I challenged visual artists (including myself) to create a piece of art on or with one 45rpm record for a juried show and to donate their works to support our (art) community.
Working on such a small and odd surface like a vinyl record certainly is not an easy undertaking. At the same time it is quite an intriguing task to consider the musical aspects of the record and to incorporate its characteristic features - grooves, song artist, label, and title - as elements of the artwork design.
In a similar way, I like to use the sleeves of the 45rpm record for my collage work, too. The double layer of the paper, the center hole, and the printed information have given me lots of possibilities to redefine the sleeve as a microcosmos for the human kind to be contained in or to break out from.
Sample Text
9" x 12"