Here: Another Reason to Love Working with Vintage & Antique Correspondance

For some reason Art Every Day Month brings out the purely quirky me, the Julie that stays safely hidden much of the time. I might let her out up to her knee but right now, she is most definitely in control.

Yesterday, I wrote about the ninety-nine year old letter from Madeleine C which I used in my mixed media piece. I actually tore a letter into three chunks so I could use the letter on different pieces.

Many would call this heresy.

I call it a way to keep a young girl named Madeleine who penned this letter young. The letter was written ninety-nine years ago so I imagine her to be somewhere between my two grandmother’s ages: 113 and 109. Possibly even older than that, but definitely still a school girl.

I can read her words and imagine my grandmother’s with young girl’s voices, talking about the winter racing past and wondering what Aunt Bettie was up to in far away West Virginia.

Madeleine isn’t famous. I don’t even know her last name. But somehow, I feel like it is important to keep both Madeleine and her words alive. It is sort of as if I am keeping Granny and Grandma alive at the same time. I wish I could have talked to them as a grown woman, not only as a little girl. I think I would understand each one of them so much better if we could have talked – really talked about things other than the things a ten-year-old talks about with her much older relative.

Now you know one of the reasons why I enjoy using antique and vintage correspondence in my art.

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This is me, writing in a Baltimore Park. I am sitting across the street from an apartment building where Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald once lived. Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday each month in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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