Millennium Magazines. Megawords is an independently published experimental media project that takes the forms of a photography magazine and related installation projects and public events.
We are interested in creating an on-going narrative that examines daily life through the documentation of our surroundings and experience. We do this by working with artists, photographers, designers, writers, musicians and creative people in a collaborative and direct manner to make a self-published, bi-annual printed magazine that offers an alternative viewpoint to the prevailing culture of emptiness, advertising and inauthenticity.
In the magazine we seek depth, meaning and relevance. We speak with a voice free from commercialization and competing novelties. We look at how people live, how they face adversity, how they have fun, how they make and think about art and culture, how they build, and how they love. Art + design. LISTEN. Leonardo Drew at the DeCordova Museum. A year or so ago, Gwen Plunkett from Houston, a friend I had met at the encaustic conference, posted some images on her blog from a show at the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston.
The images were of work by Leonardo Drew from "Existed," a show that had been organized at the Blaffer. When I learned that a large-format book had been published as a catalog of this show, I ordered one immediately, and since then I have been a Leonardo Drew (LD) fan, as you probably know if you follow this blog. COLOR. Let's get colorful!
In this final post before the conference, I wanted to touch on the subject of color. Too often I have seen artists working in bricolage or collage who only use unpigmented medium or white paint. I hope that this post will inspire you to think about color in your bricolage work--either from added encaustic paint, colored gesso, ink, oilstick, oil paint or oil pastel as well as color from the elements themselves. Dada.