Laura and Tina creating art together and why we think collaboration is the bomb!
Dear Tina, How are you my friend? My garden is starting to come to life and I am the happiest girl, flooded with inspiration from all the lush color. Winter is WAY too long here in CT! I have been going to a lot of going to plant sales and gardens centers, filling my pots with fresh new… Read More
More work is accumulating in the correspondence project we have developed called “The Collective”. Currently, we have about 20 pieces completed. Each piece is in conversation with all the other pieces in the collection. See the collection in its entirety HERE. Enjoy!
Dear Friends, Laura and I make the commitment to talk on the phone weekly. We catch up on one another’s lives, studio practice, and our work together. A few times a year we review what we are doing well and what we are ready to change. This past year we have been writing posts about… Read More
Dear Tina, I SO loved that gold shimmer you added to your last drawing for The Collective! It reminded me of the sun sparkling on the water here in CT. I also appreciated what you shared about the Great Blue Heron. What a graceful bird! Their long legs made me think of flamingos, a bird I have been intrigued by… Read More
Here are our newest additions to The Collective this month! ABOUT THIS PROJECT: We are mailing a box back and forth between the two of us. In this box, we are adding works of art on paper of various sizes twice a month. We are thrilled to experiment with this continuously building body of work that… Read More
Dear Laura, For our newest addition to our mail art project “The Collective”, I created this drawing in response to your latest piece of art. While sometimes I respond to pieces in the box from weeks ago or a combination of them together, this piece is a direct link to this one: I have… Read More
Dear Tina, Thank you so much for the little brass Ganesh you put in The Collective box. I put him on my desk as a reminder to remove obstacles in my life. I continue to recognize that my obstacles are mainly thoughts that do not serve me. When I let them go and focus on… Read More
Notes by Laura: I was inspired by the color in Tina’s last drawing of the birds. This zinnia was one of the last flowers in my garden and I wanted to carry over the essence of it with this loose, contour line drawing. Tina had added some old sheet music to the Collective box so I stamped in some… Read More
This is simply a quick update on how our Collective is growing. Laura currently has the box of collected art and is responding visually this week while in her studio. We will post another update in December as this box is mailed back and forth a few more times! Tina’s most recent addition is a… Read More
Dear Laura, I have the honor to exhibit my artwork at Redux Contemporary Art Center in the Conolly Gallery this month through November 19th. Above is the outside of the facility dedicated to the lovely Clementa C. Pinckney, who died in the shootings at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston. Our city still hasn’t fully… Read More
Hello! These are our latest additions to The Collective Project. These are sent through the mail to one another with little prompting. It is a pure visual response. Often we send other things as well. Laura sent some birch tree bark that reminded her of Tina’s recent sculptural work and Tina sent a newspaper article… Read More
Dear Friends, Our mail art project is growing! Below is a picture of the works we have created this summer. We will be updating the progress of this project monthly. You can view all the work under COLLECTIVE on our website at any time. HOW IT WORKS: When we get the package of artworks we… Read More
Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, Tina visited Laura in Connecticut for a brief but fruitful time. One thing that came out of our time is the above manifesto. While we wrote this during our last visit, we revised some of the wording and made it more artful. What do you think? We hiked, created art,… Read More
Check it out! Tina is the featured artist this month in Charleston Magazine. There is also a shout out to our work here at Laura Two Tina. You can get your copy at local grocery stores in Charleston or Barnes & Noble. Yipeeeeee!!!
Dear Friends, We began our new collaborative project back in January and are now ready to show you what we have collected. We have decided to call this “Collective” since this is a group of art accumulated over time. As noted in our previous letter, we are mailing a box (well…for now it is an envelope until… Read More
Hello Friends, As we mentioned in a recent letter we have been a little quiet here on the blog. In addition to taking some time to focus on our individual art practices, we have spent the past few months re-reading this blog from the beginning. Good grief, there is a lot here! Reading the tentative beginnings… Read More
Dear Laura, I have finally finished the ReVision 120 in response to your Vision 120. I got sidetracked by summer travel and beginning a new teaching year. However….I have followed through and made a piece that is getting back to my assemblage and found object work. I started by photographing the magnolia tree in my… Read More
Tina Hirsig, Vision 120 Laura Gaffke, ReVision 120 Dear Tina, I could tell you about the wild adventure I have been on in… Read More
Dear Tina, The photo of your sago palm releasing it’s new layer of fronds in your Vision 120 was gorgeous! I watched each of the videos you posted and have to say I was drawn to the symbolism of the spirals in the videos more than the math aspect of them. As you know I… Read More
Dear Laura, The magnolia tree bloom in your garden (see Vision 120) is different from the one in mine. Did you know I have a magnolia tree in my garden? It is in the back near the patio. Anyway, this bloom is white. Notice the center where the seed pod is- it’s magenta! Not only… Read More
“He who plants a tree Plants a hope.” ~Lucy Larcom Dear Tina, I chose this beautiful magnolia flower for ReVision 120. It’s easy to see from my last Vision how long and harsh my Connecticut winter was this past year. It affected a lot of plants in my garden but the most heartbreaking of all were… Read More
Dear Tina, How are you? My garden is in full bloom right now and I am in heaven. It is a far cry from when I posted my snowy Vision for you. When I first wrote you about ReVision 119 I was invested in another 21 day meditation challenge. This is the fourth one I have done… Read More
Dear Laura, Spring has finally arrived here, but while I was creating this piece for you it was cold and cloudy. This helped me feel your Vision inspiration. I wanted this piece to be a quiet one. I was inspired by your snow drift photographs that I mentioned in my earlier post about the process… Read More
Dear Laura, I am enjoying your pictures of snow. I do miss the sculptural quality to how it falls on tree branches, land, and even cars. It is like a layer of material that conceals the details of an object and reveals the larger shapes in their organic forms. The common smooth edges and rounded… Read More
Dear Laura, I know you would love this flower blooming in my garden right now. It is a camellia. We planted this for our son since his birthday falls in January and it blooms around that time. A blooming beauty when the rest of the garden is quiet. However- our daffodils are also peeking up… Read More
Dear Tina, I had to go back and revisit your Vision 118 as I had been away from it so long. It is interesting to read what you wrote: “The metaphor of seeds and future growth reminds me of how you are always so optimistic and hopeful for things to come. You often help me see that… Read More
Dear Laura, Several weeks back I began my ReVision by using printmaking as my answer to your Vision. However, once I printed it I didn’t like it. It seemed too simple for the ideas I was thinking about. In this photo above you can see my drawings underneath the printing plate, which is how I started… Read More
Dear Laura, I hope this finds you well. I have been thinking about you a lot as you spend time with your family. I got busy in my studio yesterday after being inspired by the Louie Swartzberg video about pollination. Honey bees are something that is a point of conversation often in my house. My… Read More
Dear Laura, Getting back into my garden after the summer heat has subsided, I am finding that it has transformed into autumn already. The plants and trees are releasing their seeds for next year despite their green showing. These plants pictured above are the black eyed susans, zebra grass, and laropia (which has beautiful purple flowers… Read More
Hello Sweet T How are you? I finished ReVision 117 and decided to go with the smaller paintings. I felt like I needed more time with the other paintings I shared in my last letter. Our work opens up new ideas for me and it often takes time to process them. The weather has been amazingly… Read More
