Collage 740

Lola Baltzell
from page 737-738, volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1203-1205

Collage 739

How I wished I loved in my heart the art I could love in my mind. Big, bold, epic, symphonic. But I love the small, the miniature, the detailed, the complex: the tiny boundaried world that has its sources in handiwork. Handiwork, crisply bordered or patched with cut geometrical shapes and defined by stitching, was what I watched my maternal grandmother do- in the quilts for our beds, the quilt for my doll, the embroidered and crocheted runners on the buffet, the corners of the tablecloths, and the handkerchiefs that primly blinked from her pocketbook.

from "The Paper Garden," by Molly Peacock. pages 18-19

No denying there's been an element of a quilting bee to the War and Peace Project. Albeit long-distance and slow-motion...Would we ever dare "stitch" the collages together for display?

...and an element of the epic- 447 collages? Every page of War and Peace? Really?

Lynn Waskelis
from page 735-736, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1202-1203

Collage 738

Lucy Arrington
from page 733-734, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1200-1202

Collage 737

Adrienne Wetmore
from page 731-732, volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1198-1200

Collage 736

Emma Rhodes
from page 729-730, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1197-1198

Collage 735

A friend has got me reading Molly Peacock's "The Paper Garden," the true story of Mary Delany- the original mixed-media collagist, and our sister. In 1772 Mary Delany began making collages at the age of 72. A span of 240 years between these images.

Lynn Waskelis

from page 727-728, volume 2 of original text
collage, oil crayon, graphite
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1195-1197

Collage 734

Adrienne Wetmore
from page 725-726, volume 2 of original text
collage, fabric, ink
made 2/3/12
Pevear/Voloskohsky translation page 1194-1195