As testament to procrastination and the spirit of the fickle artist I bring you this posting.  A near and dear friend of mine is a Katharine Hepburn fan and I thought to make her a birthday present that would be appropriate to her fandom.  I’ve poured though tons of media about Katharine Hepburn to which I could manipulate into an art project.

In one of our late night chats, she clued me in on a movie, Dragon Seed, where Katharine Hepburn played a chinese woman.  I considered the ridiculousness of actors playing asian characters (i.e Mickey Rooney in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rita Moreno in “The King and I“, Juanita Hall in “Flower Drum Song“), and I thought that it was the perfect subject matter.  Luckily she had a picture of Ms Hepburn and I blew it up in a pdf, rasterized it to look like newsprint, cropped it, then printed it out onto photo paper.

Now for the temperamental, procrastinating artist bit.  My friends birthday was in early May. I told her about an ‘art project’ that I was working on, but never said that it was going to be her birthday present. To my credit, I had it ready for her birthday, but didn’t deliver it until the 27th of May [link].  I told her that to follow up on my blog posting, I’d post a proper unveiling of the art piece and asked her kindly to take a picture of it assembled in her home. Weeks go by (June 23rd) and she finally gets some nice black board to use as a background. With the picture taken and sent to me, the ball was in my court to finish the job.

So, two months since I first talked about it I present… my art project..

At the Detroit Festival of the Arts, there are some live art pieces being created. Listed below is a high school student recreating a Wharhol print. For the kids, there is a sand sculpture with an ‘Alice of Wonderland’ theme.