Project 1:
Cigarette foils
The collection of silver and gold foils from cigarette packs continues to
grow, though not in the variety I was able to collect in Spain. Plans are
underdevelopment to solve this problem with a return trip to Spain and an
international call for assistance via the internet. Uses for the foil range
from wallpaper to wood furniture covering as well as in collages and
paintings. Most recently specially embossed gold cigarette foil was used to
make the book-jackets for my recently published Codex Mraur .
Project 2:
Corporate Art Collections in Canada
This project is on hold for the time being and the data collected was
published earlier this year in the 8th Edition of the ARTnews
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY of CORPORATE ART COLLECTIONS , edited by Shirley
Reiff Howarth. 103 Canadian collections were documented, including 38 which
were updated from previous editions. The Directory, which includes 1300
detailed entries from around the world, is available on two 3 1/2" diskettes
for $109.95 (USD) from: International Arts Alliance, PO. Box 1608, Largo,
Fl. USA 34649. (Tel: 813-581-7328, Fax: 813-585-6398).
Project 3:
Creators of Artistamps
The International Directory of Artistamp Creators , which contains
more than 1300 artistamp creators from over 40 countries, continues to be
published on request. It has been purchased, among others, by The Museum of
Modern Art Library in New York and The National Art Library at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in England.
The search for Creators of Artistamps continues via the Internet, where
additional artists have come to light. These artists are now represented in
The Artistamp Gallery in the Jas Cyberspace Museum in Jas Cyberspace .
Project 4:
Lost Civilizations
The Gallery Mraur in the Jas Cyberspace Museum is completely dedicated to
work from the Mraurovian Civilization. The Mraurovian manuscript Codex
Almada was launched at the opening of my solo exhibition at The Stamp
Gallery in San Francisco on October 5th. It was on that date, while flying to
San Francisco, that a startling theory occurred to me: that being that
so-called "sunken continent" of Mu (or Mraur) had not actually sunk beneath
the Pacific Ocean, but had slowly moved with continental drift to the South,
and that during the last great Polar Shift, had become the home of the South
Pole, and froze over. It is now what we know as Antarctica.
The Wont Mural of Mraur will be on exhibition for only the second
time in Canada. It was first exhibited in my solo exhibition in Paris in
1982 and then at the Festival of Live Alternative Art outside Lisbon
in 1983. It was also part of my solo exhibition at The Art Gallery at Mount
St. Vincent University in Halifax in 1984.
Research into other 'lost civilization' continues with the review of new
publications such as The Mayan Prophecies by Adiran G. Gilbert &
Maurice M. Cotterell (1995, Element Books, Inc. ) and The Secret of the
Incas by William Sullivan (1996, Crown Publishers, Inc. )
Completed and filed on December 3, 1996
Jas. W. Felter, Visual
Artist, Vancouver.
1996 Annual Report
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