Please everybody repeat: Consider everything an experiment.

Hand lettered by David Mekelburg..

From the archives of last year. Oh how I love Corita Kent.

Random things:

1.     I need a routine. I am aimless and worried. Do you ever feel the threatening pull of the blues? I dos.

2.     Small mantras for us: Things going right/I am ok/light wins/softer still/blue pools

3.     Manifestos. I am writing one today just for fun.  This website is awesome. Go get lost.

4.     The rules/manifesto of Corita Kent above is absolutely inspiring. It is her Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules.

5.     Please everybody repeat: Consider everything an experiment.

Corita Kent

(1918–1986) was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice. At age 18 she entered the religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary, eventually teaching and then heading the art department at Immaculate Heart College. During the course of her career, her artwork evolved from using figurative and religious imagery to incorporating advertising images and slogans, popular song lyrics, biblical verses, and literature. Throughout the ‘60s, her work became increasingly political, urging viewers to consider poverty, racism, and social injustice. In 1968, she left the order and moved to Boston. After 1970, her work evolved into a sparser, introspective style, influenced by living in a new environment, a secular life, and her battles with cancer. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986. At the time of her death, she had created almost 800 serigraph editions, thousands of watercolors, and innumerable public and private commissions.

When you die. What will they say about you? Through the years, her work became increasingly …. what?

I think about this. About all of us.

ILYSM.

Xo

amy