Her Notebook

First and foremost, I just have to thank everyone who made the Art Show at Voglie such a huge success. Thank you for coming! It’s been quite a month organizing and creating the show-some work will continue to be up at Voglie for the next month or so. It has also inspired me to do new work as well.
From designing a Cross-Calli Lilly Tattoo for Sue in Australlia to local designs, I have been dabbing into experimenting with bolder colours.

Sketches are also just a way to get quick jot-downs of ideas down. I’m loving green felt tip markers.
Enjoy June.
Lu

It’s here!! Finally!
Lu is having her first public launch and hosting her
2009 her notebook Art Show in Toronto.

The event will be taking place Thursday, May 28th at Voglie, located at 582 Church Street @ 7pm.
Join us for drinks, awesome company and of course,
checking out Lu’s newest work, up close and personal.

Keep your dials tuned into 102.1 The Edge to hear more about the show on Tuesday mornings from 830-10 am.
Please see the attached ads for more information, or write to info@luisapariselli.com

**Facebook Invites will be sent out-If you have not been sent an invite, please print out
one of the two flyers above for access into the show.

Hope to see you all there!!
Her Notebook Admin

After correspondence with a life leader and soccer coach from Guatemala driven to change the lives of young children and teens, something amazing happened.
John Banta, a hard working GSM staff member, works in Guatemala and runs a soccer team connecting the sport to lessons of life. Along with learning the fundamentals of the game, they work closely with the Catholic religion to teach life morals and ways of life. John saw a tattoo design that was created by Lu and thought it would best fit this organization with the outline of a cross over a tribal like soccer player moving through the middle of the image.

This is the return email from John:
“Luisa, 
Thanks again for the use of your design.  We are so pleased to use it on Global Soccer Ministries Guatemala bags.  We just began handing out the soccer bags to the children in our programs.  They are so excited to have them!  Here in Guatemala, GSM is working in 8 different neighborhoods - with two more being prepared…. The majority of our programs are in high gang and violence areas.  Drugs, abuse, and extremely high crime rates exist all around these children….The design you have allowed us to use is just one way of helping kids feel that they are a part of something that is both attractive to them and beneficial to their development. 
We certainly are grateful for your generosity. 
Blessings from all the GSM Guatemala staff.”
- John Banta

“I think it’s amazing to have my work touch someone in whatever way works for them. I have a love for the game and admire the beauty of faith. It’s humbling to know that my work is somewhere on the other side of the world being looked at and appreciated. ”  -L. Pariselli

There is a plan in the works of an art show happening to exibit Lu’s newest pieces in Toronto.
Follow up on the site for more info. about when, where and how you can get in!

How can I mess with an everyday space at OCAD? What can I do to make people stop and think?
And it hit me…
This is my design for my Creative Process and Research class, taught by Lyn Carter at OCAD.
It required us to take a space at the University and somehow create an installation piece by changing the space and its function. Using plaster and chizzling away at my mold for 3 days, my “stop and thinker” came to life.

The first steps required us to take a photo of the space, and draw directly on it using paint and marker.
From there, the design of molding carbdboard to hold paster was created…and so on.

How do we use water? How clean is the water we drink from our fountains? I love tap water, I’d rather drink tap water then any bottled water out there…but how safe am I? How safe are you?
The toilet design does make people smile as they walk by. I have observed the reactions of faculty and students as they gaze over and laugh, smirk, stop..and sometimes worry.
Cheers to your next glass of the good stuff.

Stretched Canvas (36 x 44″)
Spray Paint, Acrylic and Latex
An Appropriation of Banksy’s umbrella tag
www.banksy.co.uk

A sincere thank you to Fred Vecchio and the Colours of Maple Team for their generous sponsoring of supplies for the remainder of my art year.

After a scare of toxins from the over-use of spray paints without proper protection, my body has been paying the price. Im learning the hard way from not protecting myself with a safe mask and spraying in a well-ventalated area.

The owner of Colours of Maple, Fred Vecchio, provided me with a 3M Innovation mask to wear for the remainder of my spray paint projects along with over 40 cans of spray paint, litres of paint colours, amazing service and overall genuine kindness upon my arrival.

Again, a huge thank you to Fred!! Here is to safe spraying from here on end!

Colours of Maple
20 Jacob Keefer Pkwy, Unit 2
Vaughan, Ontario
L4K 5E3
www.coloursofmaple.com

Using spray paint, acrylic, conte, gel medium transfers, fabric modeling and relief work, this mixed media creation based on the assignment “Hide and Seek” was created.

In relation to my personal religious experiences, holding onto my faith has put me in a space of scruteny and judgement. This is an empowerment piece towards women who physically carry their faith with them through every moment of their day. It is a tribute to empowerment. What is the true definition of freedom? What is true female beauty? I believe it goes deeper then the physical clothing of a woman. This piece brings power to women within the Muslim faith. Her body turns into pieces of her place of prayer, making her connected to her place of worship. The piece has “Her Life”, translated into Arabic written at the bottom in fine black ink. The Canvas board is approx. 4 feet by 1 1/2 feet long.

This is my story of how the colour orange came to be.
It was once a world with brilliant scenes and explosive colours of all shades and hues. A world that was lost and destroyed. Over time, people evolved and came back to only find themselves and their world in red and blue.
A young boy was playing in a local collection of past artifacts. He understood the waste came from another time, but he was curious to see what he could find. He was one of the first boys to find a lighter in this world. His blue hands picked it up and studied it.
He was warned by his elders that the world they lived in was all they needed. Colour in 2’s was all that should be. A world where colour was blown away.

He lit the lighter and was in awe with such beauty. The flame was like nothing he had seen before. It was a colour that he could not make out. He was baffled and confused. He took a breath out. He was warned. He lit up, turning from one shade of blue to another.
His red eyes saw something they have never seen before. He had discovered a bright, new, intensity.
As he exhaled, the bright yellow heat radiated into the red sky around him.
This is how he blew alive the colour orange and rediscovered a new world of colour that once existed.

A tribute to the Russian Revolution, the overthrow of a monarchy and the former USSR. This piece represents the struggle of a revolution, the lives lost within the fight, the commercial art used to promote war and one of the first Communist states to emerge.

This piece consists of mixed media, string, acrylic paint, gesso, gel medium and photo transfers. It has soviet commercial designs integrated into the USSR flag with The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, hidden beneath the images.