overheardontheferry

 


Lately I've been connecting to new art mostly on the internet, through emails that I get, stuff that pops up on Pinterest and doing random searches of sights. 

One of the first pages I started following when I joined tumblr was overheardontheferry and it never fails me. This is my landscape, my portrait. 

The author was a mystery which I soon was trying to detect. Okay, so here is a cool, creative person who rides the boat the same time as I do and sees the queer and ordinary and just puts it out there. I had finally decided that it must be the girl who had the blue hair at one time (I was jealous because I wanted dark blue hair like hers). I had seen her on the boat with her iphone out all the time and figured she must be taking pictures discreetly. I planned to confront her the next time that I saw her, but our paths have not crossed since then. 

Today when I decided to do an Art on Staten Island post for overheardontheferry I checked out the page more closely and found Instagram and Twitter links. Nothing on the Instagram page for clues, but oh no! the heading on the Twitter page was "Born and raised Staten Islander, Associate Director at an advertising agency in Manhattan, and a really cool guy"... a GUY... so my theory of the creator was wrong! Will this change how i see the posts now? Will I still relate to them? My message in a bottle.

Anyway... Tumblr Art

At the Tumblr Art Symposium Christiane Paul, professor of visual arts at The New School, defined Tumblr as platform that many artists share their work through, but the collection of collages, video art, engagements and reblogs are not a united art form. That was my original thought, the authors were curators of what they liked or wanted to communicate, and the pages that were sited as Tumblr art didn't seem much more evolved than that. I was looking too hard for a creative layout or use of images. But i'm starting to see some of the pages as more innovative output, like an artist book or a Fluxus action- record a specific thing daily, etc. Those are the Tumblr art pieces, more subtle so harder to dig up.