“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” ― Salvador Dalí
celebrate love today and always!
happy love everyone! i thought i'd share what i made for my love for valentine's day. hopefully it will inspire those of you who are tired of v-day cards from walgreens and red construction paper hearts. i made lucky stars and wrote love poems, song lyrics, and quotes inside!
i listed some sources for good poems and quotes below but you could always write the typical "candy heart messages" in yours if you wish. click here for some really good instructions on lucky star folding.
These lucky stars are known to have special meaning and the meaning can be tied to how many are given or received...
1 star: The only one 2 stars: Happy Couple 55 stars: Love you with no regrets 99 stars: May the friendship/love lasts forever 365/366 stars: Whole year blessing 520 stars: I love you 999 stars: Endless love
it is also said that if you gift 1,000 of these stars to someone their wish will come true! i think just a few of these guys would make anyone happy though.
if you are need of some love inspiration check out these beautiful poets...
Tyler Knott Rumi Pablo Neruda Bob Marley Khalil Gibran Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. " Mother Teresa
keep on steppin
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
guts and juices
trophy fishin
i had to carry this guy all the way across campus today, which turned some heads. i think i almost caused an accident when some woman in her car couldn't take her eyes of me and my fish!
this is made from lots and lots of hot glue. i also used the clear film printer for the first time for the colored skin you see behind the hot glue scales. i scanned a piece of handmade marbled paper that i did in Italy last spring and printed that on the clear film.
i like this kind of fishing :) so i decided to build off this project for the sculpture final last semester. but instead of a fish, i chose a shark. same idea with the marbled pattern on clear film although this time i played with the color a bit in photoshop and printed two of them. i also melted the clear film and some thinner clear plastic with a heat gun for the body of the shark. the tail fin is the plastic melted around some shiny, blue fabric too...
the net is still my favorite part, although there are still lines on the wood floor of my apartment from laying the hot glue down, crossing line after line. oops!
deconstructing the marker
project: Object | Image i started taking apart markers for this project and have become fascinated! first, i cut the plastic tube of the marker below the tip with a box cutter and then i can remove the inner tube which is a thin plastic casing that holds the ink-soaked felt. that part i cut open after squeezing any leftover ink onto paper. the colorful blobs, bleed throughs, and drips are the result. i've been cutting those out and will layer them back together. as for the guts of the marker i will be felting! this is what i have so far....
book arts at Hook Pottery Paper
for the past couple days i've been working in Andrea Peterson's studio finishing a book, Anamorpho. yesterday we beat a cotton rag and recycled paper blend and added pigment to warm it and a denim thread for hints of blue. the original color was a pale gray and after we added the pigment it became bubble gum colored! we mixed the two and got this pale purply pink... garbage can of fiber!!
We poured big 22" x 30" sheets and made them thick for the cover...
remember my "pink pages" post!? the pink pages will be bound into a book soon! i've been going back into some of those with water-based markers and wheat paste. here they are drying...
we're emptying the dryer tonight and i'll be adding text to the pages this afternoon. tomorrow will be binding and finishing the cover!
pink pages
the paper is cotton rag with a handful of blue jean and colored pink with red and burnt umber pigments. the images are recycled from another project involving collage and image transfer onto white cotton rag paper. i used natural dyes made from elderberries (purplish ink) and beets (pinkish). i also used some cheap, washable markers, which is the bleeding color that you see.
still deciding how to assemble the pages into a book...
many more pictures to come!
Bilo painted.
she is done! my beautiful Bilo with a handful of fire. fierce