FOUNDart series

FOUNDART SERIES This is now the blog for ALL my foundart series.  I have migrated all the previous blogs (3) created into this one place for all my foundart series. I will create little pointers and pages that may help to delineate one series from another and other types of sub-files.  Bringing it all together into one place online. It began with the idea of 'making' artworks whilst travelling which turned into making a heap of small artworks before leaving, 'losing' them on my travels and photographing them where they were placed. The back of each piece had a label that told the finder they had found an original piece of art and to log into the website to tell of their find.  The idea morphed into its own way of 'being' as time went on. I first started doing foundart in 2007 when I travelled via Melbourne & Hong Kong to visit my daughter in Zurich, Switzerland which also took us on a tangent to Umbria Italy. The blog was called 'From Tassi...

still a bit sketchy .... We went to Florence also but i never left any art there. It was my least favourite place. #63 Sienna, Italy 24 August 2007 Same building, different spot as numbers 61 and 62. #63 #62 Sienna, 24 August 2007 same as #63 which was picked up so i left this one at the same spot five minutes after. * #61 lost in Sienna. A beautiful big building with apartments above and a large statue of mary at the top of a staircase behind huge gates on the ground floor of this building. 24 August 2007 #60 #60 Carlo Alberto Rossi Galeria, Gubbio, Italy 23 August 2007 #59 #59 lost in Gubbio, Italy. Gallery of Roberto Sironi 23 August 2007 #58 lost in Gubbio, Italy. Gallery of Roberto Sironi 23 August 2007 #57 lost at the Galleria civica d'arte moderna Spoleto, Italy 22 August 2007 #56 #55 ...

we left Zurich for Italy on Friday 16 August - returned Saturday 25 August 2007. No internet connection in Italy so i kept track using my camera and making notes (sometimes) ... #50 lost in an antique restorer's shop in Perugia. 20 August 2007 #49 lost in an antique restorer's shop in Perugia. 20 August 2007 #48 left on a doorstep of a home in Perugia. #47 lost in the courtyard of 23 Universtia degli studi di Perugia 20 August 2007 #46 lost at 23 Universtia degli studi di Perugia (Nucleo di progetta zione universitana - Primo Piana) 20 August 2007

#45 Zurich - 16 August 2007 #44 lost at Huber & Lang Fachbucher Medien 16 August 2007 #43 lost at Spectrum Optic, Zurich 16 August 2007

#42 lost at the Galerie Sylva Denzler 16 August 2007 #41 lost inside the courtyard garden of a B&B torrione appartmenti located in the walled piazza at Lake Trasimino at Castigilione, Perugia 20 August 2007 16 August ... #40 & 41 still in my handbag will update here when 'lost'

#039 lost on the window sill of L F Galleries Zurich #038 inside CLICK Trend & Art House #037 lost inside CLICK Trend and Art House

#036 lost inside Click Trend & Art house 15 August 2007 #35 lost on the doorstep of Schmuckforum, zurich - a curio shop - which was closed on this day. 13 August 2007 (I have since received an email written in German from this shopowner) #34 lost outside CLICK Trend & Art House - contemporary knick knacks and jewellery, frames and ephemera - also closed 13 August 2007