Sunday, September 21, 2008

Welcome to moly_x_46!

Moly_x_46, founded by esek_one (Greece), is an extension of the Moleskine Exchange. This blog will follow the adventure of a group of artists around the world, in a Japanese fold Moleskine sketchbook exchange. Our current group includes the artists listed to the right, including contributors in the US, Germany and Belgium.

Each artist will set off with a small Japanese (accordian) folded Moleskine. Creating a drawing, collage, or painting, then send on to the next artist. Each artist will draw on a couple of spreads (3-4 pages) then send it on to the next artist. When the artists book is filled, it will be returned to the owner with images created by artist around the world. Each artist has a month (give or take) to make an entry. The outcome will be a pleasant and surprising adventure, as artists are encouraged to interact and merge their art with others.

The concept:

1. The artists start with the Japanese fold Moleskine - Name, address, email address written in book.

2. Each artist gets 1 month (give or take) to make a sketchbook entry, and mail it to the next person. The order is listed to the right -- for participants in this exchange, look at the list of names under MAILING ORDER. If you ever need to update addresses, please feel free to contact your partners directly! An important part of this project is to discuss and exchange information and ideas.

3. Each artist will do 3-4 pages each round.

4. Artists are encouraged to interact with other images in the book. Please be respectful, but also don't hesitate to meld your art with earlier entries.

5. When the book is full, when one side of the unfolded book is filled, the book will be sent back to its original owner. That artist may continue by buying a new book and sending it to the next person.

6. If a person decides not to continue, she will simply keep her book when it comes back to her. She should email all of the participants to say she is not going to continue. We will decide, then, if we want to find a new person.

7. Please communicate regularly via email. Let each person know that you have received/sent the book. The goal is to have a dialogue. Any comments and questions are welcome.

This moly_x_project was begun by Marty Harris, Minnesota, USA.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

cheers! =D

Anonymous said...

btw this is Josan / Muevelapescueza, I have a diferent name on blogger

Kelley said...

Hi Josan, Hello everyone! I'm Kelley, my name hasn't been added to the list above yet, but I thought I'd pop in to say hello to everyone. Like Josan, I have a different blogger name as well. Hopefully we don't confuse everyone :)

Marty Harris said...

All better, now. Have fun!

Michael Nightmare said...

Looking forward to this group. It should be a lot of fun

Kelley said...

Hello all! Please don't mistake my enthusiasm for being pushy, but when will we be starting this thing? Sorry, it's just this is my first official moly exchange and I can't wait to get started, LOL!!

Lady Orlando said...

I'm working on my entry :))

Jessie said...

Hi,
I'm so new to this I have no idea what to do....just get started like lady orlando? and then do we get a list of addresses so we know where we are posting to, also a little confused with different messages/names etc. is there still a monster theme to this moly exchange?

Sorry so many questions but looking forward to this adventure.

all the Best jessie

esek_one said...

Hello there

thanks for joining this exchange..

the theme of my moleskine will be monsters..
I think that you could either start your own moleskine...
we can set the order of the exchange and each one will ask the address of the next person by email/flickr mail.

I am searching for a Japanese moleskine and i maybe have one by the end of the week.

feel free to post on the blog.introduce yourself,post some work of yours...