August 21, 2014
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way
To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way
Consider everything as an experiment
Nothing is a mistake
There is no win
There is no fail
There is only MAKE
Don’t try to analyze and create at the same time
They are different processes
Be happy when you can manage it
Enjoy yourself
It is lighter than you think
There will be new rules next week.
Excerpted from the Immaculate Heart College Art Department rules
Sister Mary Corita (1918-1986)
Born Frances Elizabeth Kent, the Iowa native joined the Roman Catholic Sisters of the Immaculate Heart in 1936. She studied art at Otis College of Art and Design and the Chouinard Institute and received her BA from Immaculate Heart College where she laterbecame the Chair of the Art Department. She said her work was influenced by Buckminster Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames, with whom she enjoyed close relationships as she developed her signature style of painting and serigraphy, said by many to have changed the course of modern art. Corita Kent left the sisterhood in 1968, moved to Boston, and devoted herself to a highly successful life as a studio artist. Among her best known works are the “Love” postage stamp from 1985 and the controversial gas storage tanks on the Southeast Expressway in Dorchester which are said to contain the profile of Ho Chi Minh.
With thanks to Christina Sun, in whose excellent Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook I found this excerpt.
Gregory R Bover
Good Morning Gloucester 