How fortunate can one person be? Artist, mathematician, book binder, happy person.
A mid-life career change from teacher of maths and physics
to artist, mother, web page writer, martial artist . . . .
Living at Puniho in New Zealand, with painter Paul Hutchinson
I consider myself to be one of the most fortunate people in the world.
Rich in everything but cash.
Assemblage art by Dale Copeland
An exhibition in eight rooms
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| Books | Collage | Dale | A year at 80 |
I love the things I make."Junk" is collected, sits around for about 20 years, and finally finds its place. From collage postcards to a large motorised Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round of gargoyles, including my mother's false teeth in a fish head, life is full of possibilities. People have been puzzled by the contrast: my optimism and enthusiasm for living seen against my work, which finds its beauty in images of fear, death, and the follies of the living. To me there is no contradiction: given the horrors, the brevity and the pain, an intense joy is the only rational response; dance till they drop you, exult while you can. (Self-analysis is the thinking woman's vice?) Over all the joys of life, the fierce and inevitable decay. The objects I collect, the treasures I keep for years until they find their place, they may indeed be images of death, but for me their beauty is one of the joys which make life into a glowing jewel in the dust. |
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Stuff about Dale, her studio, her jungle.
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| Books | Collage | Dale | A year at 80 |
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Room 2 |
Room 3 |
Room 4 |
Room 5 |
Room 6 |
Room 7 |
Room 8 |
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