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<\/a>\nANDREW GUENTHER \/ EAT THE LEAF \/ @eattheleaf.
\nin his studio\/workshop. GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NY. JAN 2016<\/p>\n
it actually says ‘Smile’ too, like mine, except in script – interwoven into the almost free form face. very poetic. nice bond. and – it’s very Picasso-like<\/strong>, which I really<\/strong> like. it’s kind of a wake-up call. it’s very very interesting, style-wise. a sort of revival of someone who had ‘died’ re relevance & over-marketing \/ there, for awhile ? can we add (ttttrump) . . speech writers to the list ? & the growing respect for the laws\/rights of intellectual property \/ & original thinking . . amidst all this freely accessed\/published info (and photos) that surrounds us. thanks to our new century \/ human bio google robot component.<\/p>\n YES. hand sKills . . in my case: once also known as ‘fancy stitching’, embroidery \/ quilt repair \/ sewing, craft work, painting. writing. documenting, even photography is a form of handiwork. and so is archiving . . ‘already dead’ is very different from . . the ‘walking dead’. I s\/wear it all the time – it’s my day-to-day motto. EAT THE LEAF !!!!<\/p>\n PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n EAT THE LEAF, half man\/half robot: stay HUMAN. PABLO PICASSO, anybody ? which brings us back, full circle . . . to ANDREW GUENTHER !!!!!! the Brooklyn-based painter, and new ‘era’ . . . jewelry craftsman\/designer\/creative – who goes by the name: EAT THE LEAF. ANDREW GUENTHER \/ EAT THE LEAF \/ @eattheleaf. in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29835"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29909,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29835\/revisions\/29909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nANDREW greets us, Oct 2015.
\nwe, me & Theo, my son . . . went to visit Andrew several times over the past year.
\nwe started off looking for a special custom gold EAT THE LEAF ‘signet’ ring for Kate, for her birthday, and along the way – we fell (deep) in love with his design work. Theo bought a handful. literally, of pressed stencil ‘message’ rings for himself, he bought me a sweet pinkie ‘SMILE’ stencil ring in gold, & then, a month later – even a lovely, lovely, lovely . . . “ALREADY DEAD” gold pendant . . for Christmas 2015 !!
\nyeah, that good. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAndrew’s house in Greenpoint, where he lives with . . TIFFANY GRACE POLLOCK, and their two young children, Easter Lily & Ivo.
\nwe actually had been to Andrew’s house, his studio is in the lower level basement, once or twice before, probably for a Greenpoint Open Studio weekend.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAndrew showed us a handful of paintings – he happened to have around that day. they were beautiful, relevant, smart & crazy.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nANDREW GUENTHER ‘COLA’, painting, acrylic on canvas.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nANDREW GUENTHER, ‘mushroom’ detail.
\none day I’m going to go back – and get me a painting, fer sure.
\nand who knew . . mushrooms could <\/em>bite. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbut today, we were on a mission, to find Kate a special custom-designed ring for her birthday.
\nAndrew’s . . EAT THE LEAF worktable.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAndrew’s EAT THE LEAF sketches . . .
\nreally, so fun !! to get so close to his thinking, and thoughts. designs – in the making.
\nEAT THE LEAF designs . . at the moment of birthing \/ processing.
\nNASA . . on a human scale.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAndrew shows us some sample rings.
\nover time, we got a couple of variations on those ‘message’ stencil rings, one in gold for me that says ‘SMILE’, something I need to know, or at least remember. and a handful – for Theo in various hardcore ‘guy’ metals !! bronze and copper, something like that.
\nand – we decided on the ‘signet’ ring, at the left – to be the base for Kate’s birthday ring, and asked Andrew, since he actually knows Kate – to come up with some special designs just for her.
\nthat was back in October, OCT 2015.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nfast forward . . . JAN 2016.
\nKATE receives her ANDREW GUENTHER \/ EAT THE LEAF custom design ‘signet’ ring – in gold, and . . . she love, love loves it !!<\/p>\n
\nit strikes me, as so<\/strong> curiously: very . . avant-garde.
\nit’s also interesting<\/strong> in terms of artists today being very multi-disciplinary, even craft-wise, right, right now. just like Pablo. the KANYE . . ‘life of Pablo’, even. including those who cook, make bread, or sew. take video. post social media. hand-dye. are into ancient indigo, flower arranging. raise animals, fly pigeons<\/strong> & honor bees<\/strong>. grow gardens. build boats & travel waterways. collect mid-century furniture. etc etc. huge wave of graphic design, both commercial & commercial\/indie, indie book making, DIY publishing. zines. marbling<\/strong>. DIY script\/fonts, street art. tea ceremonies<\/strong>. pottery. one-of-a-kind ceramics. endless. filmmakers. ‘creatives’ are a big<\/strong> force today, there’s no denying their role vis-a-vie – the digital world.<\/p>\n
\nthe human \/ computer .. the man bio \/ robot age is<\/strong> here, it’s just we’ve MERGED our brains first. augmented our brains – first.
\nwe are wired into the web. we are<\/strong> . . HALF MAN \/ HALF MACHINE.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nhere’s my . . EAT THE LEAF pendant. it’s solid gold.
\nit says: ALREADY DEAD. think about it.
\ntotally love the goth rose, and the bone-y skeleton hand. a hand holds a rose. nature. romance. aroma. even . . the thorn.
\nbut the hand<\/em>. the hand speaks to . . skills. hand skills, human skills, hands-on skills !!
\nsKILLs \/ kill. as in . . . ‘kill it’ – rule.
\nthe power of the creative mind. the power of nature, the power of the leaf. growth & creativity. <\/p>\n
\nand in Andrew’s case: jewelry making.<\/p>\n
\nit’s not about being<\/strong> the ghost army, it’s about being – the army.
\nit’s about being ‘hard’, as in hard-nosed. persevering. focused.
\npresent tense. <\/p>\n
\nI got<\/strong> it – the moment I saw it.
\nin all ways. but especially, quite literally. if you see me, you see it.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nsee: EAT THE LEAF – HANDMADE JEWELRY BY ANDREW GUENTHER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"