Please click the links below to visit the websites, galleries or shops of the participating artists — what you saw here was only a sliver of their work. If you missed out on an auction item that you loved you may find something similar or completely different that you love even more. Some may even take commissions.

Oh, and don’t forget, you can still snag a print of Connie Toebe’s artwork here.

• A Chain of Memories
• Valentines
• Gilded Cage
• All Valentines are One Valentine
• What He Said
• Berry Moon
• The Quiz

P.S. Don’t forget the Connie Toebe Interfictions cover art prints, which are still available.

There are five 11 x 17 prints available for sale for $25 each. (Click the image to enlarge.)

Gilded Cage
by Cris Fisher

Heavy, black onyx beads and roses, spangled with Czech crystal in tones of iron, royal blue, and a hint of gold to set off the brass bees and bright gold colored lock set with white rhinestones. 14.5 to 15 inches long, depending on how twisted you are.

Based On:

“To Set Before the King” by Genevieve Valentine

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“Let’s see how you look,” he says, pulls up a chair in the doorway so she can’t run out.

The mother had beautiful things, and the racks behind the governess sag with the silk and satin dresses the mother wore only once and couldn’t throw away. One is the dark blue of the night sky sewn with silver, one is the bright gold of the sun, one shines like a diamond.

When she shakes her head he says, “Come on, you took the boots she gave you. She’s not coming back for these. Let’s pick something nice.”

She feels as if his hands were on her, but he sits in his chair while she pulls the blue dress from the hangar, slides it over her naked bones. She trembles so much that he has to pull up the zipper himself.

He turns her to face the mirror.

“That’s better,” he says, moves the chair aside, closes them in.

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After the children are asleep, the governess goes to her room and sees the dress of gold laid out on her bed, unzipped and waiting for her. The lining is embroidered with bees (from the mother’s name–the dress was made for her).

She looks out the window as if she could signal someone, but it’s night out, and the window might as well be painted over black.

She puts on the dress and goes to his room.

“Very good,” he says, and she feels like her mouth has been stuffed with cotton and no light will ever reach her.

When he zips the dress closed, she can feel the bees spring to life inside the dress, a thousand tiny stings.

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A gilded cage is still a thorny prison, and meat is meat.

Cris Fisher

What He Said
by Mia Nutick

Ceramic pendant, pink wash on pink and silver.

Based On:
“On the Pleasures of Not Belonging” by Henry Jenkins (Introduction to Interfictions 2)

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Chimera Fancies are wearable poetry made of old recycled fairy tale books made into new art, my own chosen interstitial art form. For this auction I used an ARC of Interfictions 2, so the text on these pieces is both taken from and inspired by the stories themselves.

“What He Said” is taken from the introduction to Interfictions 2 by Henry Jenkins, “On the Pleasures of Not Belonging”. Jenkins discusses what interstitiality means to him and to others so beautifully here, I wanted to make something to capture this idea. As he said, “Write. Appropriate. Remix. Transform.” Let’s all not belong together.

Mia Nutick

All Valentines are One Valentine
by Amanda Leetch

Mixed media art made with molded vegetable tanned leather, paper wasp’s nest and art papers, set in a distressed wooden box.

Based On:
“Valentines” by Shira Lipkin

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Everyone asks me the same question: How did you end up making masks?

Let me tell you:

I have a strong background in theater, and ended up spending a lot of time in my late teens and early twenties working building props, masks, puppets, and scenery pieces for a local childrens theater. I’ve made a bison head with five foot long horns, giant bugs and an elephant the size of a pony… and as much as I loved making art on such a grand scale, my favorite has always been masks.

In 2007, I got married and my husband and I had a masquerade wedding. When buying our masks, I was awed by the work that was available out there- from the elegant fantasy work in leather to the traditional papier mache masks of the Venetian masters. It was then that I decided that was the permanent direction I wanted to take my art.

I started making my own papier mache masks with a decidedly muppet-esque flair. Then I was contacted by a poi spinner who needed a mask with some very odd specifications, the biggest one being that he needed it to be fireproof.

I had always wanted an excuse to try working with molded leather, so I was excited for the opportunity to try it, and once I put my hands to the leather I knew for sure I had found my medium.

Amanda Leetch

We’ve extended a few auctions to run until the 7th, so here’s a list of the art you can still bid on until Monday (excluding the pieces that haven’t yet gone live):

• The Quiz by Ashly Nagrant
• Berry Moon Skirt by Pam Noles (now with even more images)
• Valentines by Kythryne Aisling
• A Chain of Memories by Jonaya Kemper

Valentines
by Kythryne Aisling

Choker-style necklace in silver wire with glass, Swarovski crystal, and metal beads, with a glass bottle containing fragments of the story recorded in multiple mediums.

Based On:
“Valentines” by Shira Lipkin

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Shira Lipkin and I collaborated on this project, working together to record the story in as many different forms as possible: audio on cassette tape and CD, video on DVD, handwritten on parchment, computer printed on paper. I then shattered the disks, tore the paper, and cut the tape into small fragments and used one fragment from each medium in this piece, to reflect the story’s theme of data loss and recovery.

Kythryne Aisling

A Chain of Memories
by Jonaya Kemper

18-inch-long wraparound charm necklace. Done on white painted and patinaed vintage chain, with copper and silver colored rings that attach various new, vintage and found charms. Charms include actual silver, pewter and glass.

Based On:
“Valentines” by Shira Lipkin

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Upon reading Valentines, I wondered what it would be like to have to carry and write your entire life. I translated that feeling into a charm necklace which can actually serve as a necklace, belt, or even a bracelet depending on how you wrap it. I wanted to make a piece that was functional, beautiful and useful. Something that the new owner would be able to add to with their own story as well as the story of the heroine. One of my favorite parts about this necklace is the message bottles. Ways to carry slips of paper and notes. These bottles can be left as is, or filled with your own memories. A lot of these charms were found objects in and around Hollywood, CA.

Jonaya Kemper