My paintings
The shown paintings belong to a series of thirty-five motifs. The frames are being manufactured by myself using rejected items I get out of a dumpster of a wholesale with permission. Sometimes it may last up to 9 months until I have found four matching frame pieces. They then will be sawed in suitable length.
These rejected frames are new and not accepted by customers. For example the frames may have tiny scratches, are slightly twisted, form and color differ or they are cracked.
These European paintings are a material way to peace in this kind of form.
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Once a week I climb into the dumpster of a wholesale, sometimes with a tie around my neck, searching for frames between the trash of kitchens and gardens and debris of buildings. It often takes one hour of work until I reach the bottom of the dumpster.
What I am doing here? I am preserving and protecting the environment: these frames will not reach a waste disposal site to be burned and poison our, the flora’s and fauna’s air. "Thanks" from nature to you !
Even the passe-partouts are cardboards found in the waste.
Unused material is taken advantage of for the reliefs I make by lime, which is three times harder than porcelain, and the watercolors I use to paint. If there are not enough rejected frames in the dumpster, I may buy an additional new one. The result is a mixed calculation.
Depending on the motif, it takes one to one and a half hour to produce a framed painting:
driving to the wholesale, picking the frame parts out of the trash, cleaning, sorting, storing until four matching and long enough frame pieces have been found, measuring, miter cutting, glueing and maybe staining them in one or more color.
Then selecting cardboard passe-partouts in suitable colors and cutting them in size.
Stirring the lime, pouring it in the moulds, after hardening air-drying or drying them the on heating. Coloring the reliefs on the street in the city of Trier, Germany or anywhere else. Measuring, fixing the hook on the backside of the frame by driving it in with a hammer and nails or pressing the nails with pliers into the wood, if it is soft enough. Putting together passe-partout, frame and colored reliefs in harmonic position. Labeling it with name, year and signature on the passe-partout. An example:
Amsterdam `98 TOM NOVA
Because my painted clouds are thought to be man-made, illustrated as I imagine them, they could have been floated elsewhere by now. Sometimes it may happen, that there is a different city-name below the painted relief according to the wish of the customer. The date of year? This may differ, too. But these attributes do not change the motif formulating peace as a global quality of life in form of a next higher level of civilization.
TOM NOVA
Moselstraße 44
D - 56290 Luetz
Germany
Phone: +49 2672 / 1564
Fax: +49 2672 / 2779
E-mail: email@tomnova.com
Address stickers are fixed on the back of the picture with contact information as address, telephone, fax, e-mail and website info.
The size of the lime reliefs is 9 cm x 13 cm (3.5 x 5 inches), the size of a picture with frame 20 cm x 22.5 cm (8 x 9 inches).
Prices:
recycled frame chosen by me 25 Euros plus postage
individual frame chosen by you 50 Euro plus postage
Payment: Cash on delivery or in advanced on my bank account.
TOM NOVA
Kreissparkasse Cochem - Zell (Germany)
Bank code 570 518 70
Account number 2 00 00 65
The silver frame shown above is suitable for most furnishing styles: antique - modern - mixed.
The dimensions of the original paintings of the lime reliefs are 185 cm x 150 cm (73 x 50 inches). I will paint them in each size as you wish. The price is negotiable.
And what do you do here on this earth!
Written march 15th, 1998.