This blog was suggested by my friend Tracy Jager, who is working on a project with me entitled The Archaeology of Water, a handprinted suite of etchings based on poems submitted by five writers from the Canadian prairies. The first print in the suite, incorporating the poem The Life and Surprizing Adventures by Robert Kroetsch, seemed to require an image of a coconut monkey, which/who was duly found by Tracy in a local Filipino grocery store (whoops! see comment below) and nicknamed Bob. Bob continues to reside in the studio now named after him, Coconut Monkey Press.More images of the project will be posted over the next few days, so please check us out once in a while!
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Actually, Bob the Coconut Monkey was purchased at My Orange Bag, a vintage clothing store, which (sad to say) recently closed. The Filipino grocery store only had NEW coconut monkeys, and they weren't nearly as funky as Bob, and didn't resemble the one my Granny used to have. Bob had been sold to My Orange Bag by a woman whose son had brought it back from Pearl Harbour, where he was stationed during World War II. So not only is Bob an antique, he's kind of a veteran too! I told the proprietor of My Orange Bag to tell the woman, if he ever saw her again, that Bob was destined to be famous - and so he is, in a way!
Blog looks great by the way! Happy to see it up! (Reminding me to get my own blog up to date!)
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