FOUNDart series

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

Welcome, art finders and friends! My creative journey began over at Gina's Eye , you might remember that this is where the very first seeds of the FOUNDart series were planted. As the project grew and more of you began finding the artwork, I realized this series truly deserved a dedicated space of its own—a place where finders can easily connect, share, and comment. I am about to pack my bags and head off on an exciting new adventure to Spain soon! To mark this fresh chapter, I am officially refreshing this blog (foundart series) as the main hub for all things FOUNDart. Thank you so much for following along, hunting for art, and being part of this journey. Stay tuned—Spain is calling, and new art will be waiting to be found very soon! Before the new Spanish pieces start rolling in, you can take a look back at where it all began. See the wonderful comments that came in from people who found art from the foundart series in Switzerland, Junction Festival Launceston and other. I’ve ...

Wishing you each and your families a Happy Easter whichever way you celebrate. I am taking this opportunity to have a little giveaway. I returned with 3 of the foundart Tokyo series in my handbag. One is promised to Teri so there are two to giveaway.  Tell me in 10 words or less what art, doing it, living with it, supporting it means to you. I will pick 2 to send one of the pieces each and a little something else.  Anywhere in the world. It ends in 10 days time when I will advise winners.  Two winners will receive by snail mail, one of the foundart pieces and a little something else that i will send with it. The intent and pieces of Foundart Tokyo series has been recorded in this blog with links to previous foundart series conducted in  Switzerland, Launceston , Italy  and Bali. They are under the label ' foundart ' on the front page of Gina'sEye

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...

As i posted recently I have rejigged this project as i am due to travel soon. This project began in 2007 and stalled by 2017.  See comments here from 'finders' in previous years during travels to Italy and Switzerland. So, i grabbed some matboard offcuts and proceeded to collage all over the lengths. I drew on my collage paper stash without much thought and used fragments of old drawings, local maps, stitching graph paper, gelli prints, dressmakers patterns, sand! (from our local beach), text from a dictionary and a manga booklet from Japan.   Having covered 8 strips of matboard offcuts i proceeded to cut them up into 'card' size ... the sizes are random depending on the width and length of the offcut. This provided me with 53 pieces! Here are a few examples - some MAY be already finished but most will require something else. Now to finish them off - with something.  what ?  yet to be thought through.  I will keep you updated.  I will also be creating...

  53 cards complete -  well 54 in fact, a friend snuffled one before project 2027 even begins restarting the foundart series 2027.  see comments here from people who found their cards in Switzerland and Italy  two recent posts about reawakening the series and prepping for it here and here . and bonus thought - the image (above) of 7 of the cards contain a little sticker element sent to me earlier in the year from my friend, Glenn in the USA.  the project is called "FROM HERE TO THERE"  so its quite apt that Glenn's contribution from the USA becomes a part of the project as i travel from here to Europe ~ on the back of each card ~