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Work is the ultimate seduction.  Pablo Picasso

First off, a little housekeeping:

A dress completely made from recycled Golden Books.  Wish I could see this up close.

More Barbars DiPirro who probably thinks I'm stalking her by now!  A close up of her crocheted plastic bags forming lichen-like circles.

So, now I guess I've established a RECLCLED theme for today...

so instead of continuing, let's talk about who is watching me sleep at night:  I woke up yesterday to these footprints on my window-

 and this morning they were refreshed and extended to the widow next to this one.

It looks like a weasel dragging a big lizard footprints, or possible the other ay around. It arches and travels across from left to right (though the critter that it be was traveling in the opposite direction)  Whatever, I guess tonight I stay up all night with my flashlight in my lap ready to catch the offenders.

So, I got to the studio early today and worked fast flitting from project to project and got a whole lot done on lots of things.  It's a good thing because it enables me to put things away from each 'station' as I use them up plus throw away all the associated detritus accumulating.  In some ways I wish I had less space, like the old days, because with two huge 4x8 tables plus a wall of desk, I tend to think I can keep starting new things and not worry about where I am!  Wrong.  But to get at what I did today-  I hemmed two pairs of pants that the season is almost past to wear.  Yea, me!  Removed that pile and freed up lots of emotional space!

Then I got to work on the Art Bra which I am really enjoying:  I went to two more craft shops yesterday looking for fake cherries but there are none to be had anywhere-  all the fruit was way down and looking pretty sad so I had to improvise.  I grabbed a couple of packages of wooden balls and thought I would paint them but as I was leaving I had to wheel through the Christmas shop and I found this garland, SPARKLY RED BALLS in two or three different sizes.  Any yes, they are styrofoam so easy to pierce.  Grabbed a garland and some green metallic string and I already had the leaves from the previous foray.  

It was a problem finidng a needle with a big enough eye  but I had one in my yarn-stuff boxes.  It was hard going so I strung all of them at once so I wouldn't have to rethread that needle.  

I tied the end, pushed down two and cut off a 6-7" length and knotted that 

24 times 

Until little cherries appeared.  Then I did a leaf try-out and mine were too big so I trimmed them down. I can't wait to go back tomorrow and assemble all my elements.  Plus I FOUND a little bra hanger in Loehmanns (it was next to Michaels and I just had to go in), picked it up and it will be my display equipment-  luckily it's clear with no logos or broken prongs.  Poifect, though it is certainly beginning to look like a stripper's bra.

Then I got to the Golden Apples quilt and sewed on the border after trimming it up.  I still haven't solved the shadows-on-flesh problem but I sure know what DOESN'T work now.  I may have to get out the paints, and I could use some on their teeth too.  Going to get it all layered and think on it while mindlessly sewing.

So, to satisfy my hunting the web compulsion, I found a woman who really throws herself into her work~ Heather Hansen‘s Emptied Gestures is as much a performance piece as it is a drawing.  Appearing to use charcoal or pastel, Hansen literally steps on to the paper and begins to draw.  She allows the natural movements of her body – the movements of joints, the extension of her back, stretching and contracting – to define her lines.  The large-scale drawing becomes a kind of record of her moving body.  Interestingly she says:“Emptying Gestures is an experiment in kinetic drawing. In this series, I am searching for ways to download my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one form to another and creating something new in the process.”

Squirrel imitating a bigger Squirrel