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Today just so happens to be National Pound Cake Day!

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. Eric Maisel 

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(Assigned Reading for the Day)

FOUR STAGES OF CREATIVITY: 

Wallas outlines four stages of the creative process — preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification — dancing in a delicate osmosis of conscious and unconscious work.  Go to the link for the article.

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The Doggie Report today-  finally she ate a scrambled egg this morning and seemed to enjoy it.  Overnight, every few hours I've been giving her a drink of chicken broth just to get something into her.  She is all bones again, just when I thought things might be getting better.  I had put a little bowl of the broth down in her food area but my big foot stepped on it and I got a hot (chicken) foot-  hope my slippers aren't ruined after Pepper decided they were absolutely delicious.  Have there more drops to go before I can escape Dog Care today.  I simply have to get to the studio for a few hours to wind a few thing up.  There are actually a couple of shows I got ads for this morning and I ned to take a look to see if I have appropriate work.  

And other than that, Sadie, I got nuthin'.  

Sometimes spontaneous similar things develop in different places.  These masks obviously have roots in African masks but one is the European interpretation made of twined found ropes, the other a contemporary African take, also made from found materials- this time large plastic bottles.

Dutch designer Bertjan Pot accidentally stumbled upon the concept of these rope masks when he was trying to sew a carpet out of standard rope. When the carpet started to get curvy, instead of throwing out the colourful material, he switched to making these beautiful masks that would put your raggedy Halloween mask to shame.

In order to make these masks, Pot uses different varieties and colours of ropes and sews them together using a sewing machine. The masks, he says, are new faces he meets every day. Some have happy faces, others more animalistic, some a bit creepy, and the rest a little abstract.

African artist Romulad Hazoumé uses salvaged materials as an artistic medium, transforming discarded gasoline containers into masks that resemble those used in traditional African culture and ceremonies. Hazoumé's work explores cultural and political issues such as globalization, the legacy of slavery, colonization, and the impact of Western consumerism on Africa. Speaking about his work Hazoumé said, “I send back to the West that which belongs to them, that is to say, the refuse of consumer society that invades us everyday.”

This squirrel courtesy of MaryBeth.  She found it over HERE.  Love him!