lydia ricci (from scraps)

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“From Scraps” … love! This work, by Philadelphia based artist Lydia Ricci, feels like a folded, glued, taped walk down memory lane for me… roller skates, a boombox, and don’t even get me started on that rotary phone {I can almost hear those little rotating ticks now!}. She refers to this series/her work as “from scraps”, and she means it:

PAPER, BOARD, THE BACK SIDE OF ANYTHING, GLUE, HOT GLUE, TAPE, STAPLES AND WHAT WAS ALMOST THROWN AWAY.

Phew! Thank goodness none of those bits n pieces made it into the trash!






comments (8)

  1. Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne /// 01.12.2017 /// 8:31am

    I love this post! It came at the perfect time! I am so excited to show my students who have been working on paper everyday object sculptures inspired by the work of Lenka Clayton, Miranda July, & Chris Gilmour.

  2. the jealous curator /// 01.12.2017 /// 8:57am

    ah, perfect! tell your students i say HI!

  3. Xuying /// 01.12.2017 /// 2:02pm

    Love the rolling shoes! Touched by the purity!

  4. Ric Allison /// 01.13.2017 /// 3:21pm

    Awe inspired passionate loved and lived in!!!!

  5. Nikkie /// 01.14.2017 /// 11:35am

    this art makes me smile. so cute and nostalgic.

  6. Julie /// 01.14.2017 /// 10:47pm

    So wonderful!!

  7. TWsIL #7 | V. Scribit /// 01.16.2017 /// 10:33am

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  8. Caren /// 01.17.2017 /// 8:33am

    these are great! I love how nostalgic they are!