Elpiniki Talentino

My friends have been diligently adding to my ever ongoing card catalogue project (http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23) but I’ve been completely derelict in posting their wonderful contributions! I unexpectedly received an envelope full of index cards from one of my dearest friends, Elpiniki, months and months ago after she and her fiance came to visit. She made these from photos taken on their flights to and from Seattle. If a little bit of sky is all that separates me from my loved ones then I’ll just have grow wings and to learn to fly…especially to New York City.

Elpiniki Talentino made these cards but you can participate too! see: http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about my card catalogue project.

To see Elpiniki’s artwork follow this link: http://www.elpinikitalentino.com/main.html She’s all kinds of wonderful.

Weekend Additions:

I’ve been adding to the super sexy library card catalogue currently doubling as my sketchbook. It has recently been dubbed the “art-o-logue”. Recent additions include:

I made these card catalogue cards but YOU can participate too! see:http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about my card catalogue project~

In La Push

From the Quileute alphabet.

I made this card catalogue card but YOU can participate too! see:http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about my card catalogue project!

If only the Dewey Decimal System worked on life.

I made these cards but YOU can participate too! see:http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about my card catalogue project!

Card Catalogue Installment III

Where I live in the Pacific Northwest  there’s an intense brand of beauty that can be interpreted as a sort of sadness but really it’s the power of the place that inspires introspection and quiet.  And that is resplendently uplifting.

I made these cards but YOU can participate too! see: http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about my card catalogue project!

Emily’s Additions!

My friend  Emily Rose made these library reference cards and you can participate too! see: http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about the card catalogue project!

Rebecca & Payson’s Catalogue Cards!

Rebecca & Payson are the first of my friends to add their own cards to the catalogue! All of you should learn from their examples. Real friends put pictures & etc. on 3×5 index cards & mail them to Astrid. That’s just what they do.

My friends Rebecca & Payson made these cards but YOU can participate too! see: http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about the card catalogue project!

Card Catalogue Installment II

More and more getting filed away: Victorian Kidos & Amoebic Goo. With tens of thousands more of these to do before the Card Catalogue is full I think that by the end we may very well cover everything that can be done on a 3×5 inch surface. I’ve been doodling these amoebic little shapes when I’m stressed out lately. Doodle therapy could have far more potential than art therapy.  The doodle is beyond the mind & while it may lack any real substance it is a no pressure meditative little thing that helps me unwind. Victorian children on the other-hand are neat for many reasons but mostly because all things Victorian are innately creepy and that creepiness is only amplified when it’s combined with children. These Kidos are drawn from prints in an old Sears Roebuck catalogue from when everyone bought everything from those books. Not so long ago I did my undergrad in Savannah where & I lived near Forsyth Park. There’s this big famous fountain right in middle of it where all of the tourists, pigeons & schizophrenics gathered. Even that fountain was purchased from one of those catalogues.

I made these index cards but YOU can participate too! see: http://astridmonique.com/blog/?p=23 to learn more about the card catalogue project!