Tess Nottebohm's accomplished activity is about art, so it was accustomed that she would acknowledge to the tragedy of New Orleans with a behemothic collage adulatory Mardi Gras 2006.The collage - a adventurous agitate of Gustav Dore images, bedeviled by a large, active angel - has become a affiche for auction locally, online and in New Orleans, with 10 percent of the gain appropriate for the American Red Cross's flood abatement efforts.
PRWEB) February 25, 2006 -- Tess Nottebohm's accomplished activity is about art, so it was accustomed that she would acknowledge to the tragedy of New Orleans with a behemothic collage adulatory Mardi Gras 2006.
The collage - a adventurous agitate of Gustav Dore images, bedeviled by a large, active angel - has become a affiche for auction locally, online and in New Orleans, with 10 percent of the gain appropriate for the American Red Cross's flood abatement efforts.
She aboriginal visited New Orleans a decade ago "and it captured my body and didn't let go."
"When I couldn't argue my bedmate to move there, I began purchasing briefing New Orleans Victorians and acclimation them up for resale. I adulation to adorn and adorn things."
"I acquisition New Orleans the a lot of adventurous abode on earth," the San Rafael citizen says. "The art, the food, the music. It's actual French, actual Spanish, actual African. It's a actual bright city."
Tess Nottebohm says she was abashed if the floods hit New Orleans. "I accept abounding accompany there, some of whom absent everything. The city-limits may survive but it will never be the same. The floods done abroad so abundant that is not replaceable."
From her affliction came the poster, which she says is an admiration to Dor}, a 19th-century engraver. The Dor} images are affiliated with computerized swirls of water, and labeled in Nottebohm's accomplished calligraphic hand. Some of the images are fantasy, some are symbolic. A cantankerous becomes a accepted attribute of hope. A atramentous man captivation up a amazement white changeable amount "represents New Orleans, complete on the backs of slaves."
The angel in the centermost embodies the "brotherhood and acquaintance it will crop to clean the city."
Nottebohm, who is a painter, has aswell accounting a atypical about New Orleans. She holed up in a New Orleans bed-and-breakast for six weeks, reading, cerebration and allure the brood that eventually gave her "full blown" the adventure she tells in her book, "Sultry Days of Blood and Angels."
"It's affectionate of New Orleans humans cogent me about themselves," she says. "I'm not a New Age being but, if I were, I would anticipate they were cogent me things they capital me to address down."
She wrote on and off for 5 years, aboriginal accomplishing mountains of analysis in books she exhumed from the aback shelves of New Orleans bookstores. "I accept added than 300 books on the old city-limits - from 1865 to the mid 1900s. My bedmate and I are just absorbed by old books. We accept a huge library on every accountable imaginable. Eventually I will accord the New Orleans books to the city-limits library."
The aftereffect of her analysis is "a actual amorous book, with elements of abstruseness and a actual arguable core." She is still alive on a final version, she says. "Next footfall is to attending for a publisher."
Nottebohm's backdrop were abundantly absolved - "no flooding, a bit of storm damage; I'm ambidextrous with that."
Over the years she has awash 10 houses, still owns six, in assorted stages of rehabilitation. "I'm actual appreciative of one of them," she says. "It was 100 years old but actual run down. I fabricated a adorableness of it, I adapted it with ironwork, acrylic and shutters. And one by one the surrounding backdrop started charwoman up, and we upgraded the accomplished neighborhood. I acquainted it absolutely aggressive a lot of people."
Now she hopes her affiche will affect people, too.
"I capital to actualize something meaningful," Nottebohm says.
"The city-limits will consistently bless Mardi Gras, no amount what," she says. "Its humans will consistently ball on the bend of the volcano."
She hopes her affiche - and its angel - will advice accumulate that spirit alive.
The affiche can be beheld and ordered online at Tess Nottebohm's website
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