Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born. Nicola Tesla
I just returned front he studio where I pulled some ore threads out of the linen on the Serial Killer quilt to make it look even more distressed. i gotta stop. But now I am thinking I need to put some sort of patterning over the... ummm, pattern! Anyway, it's on the wall and I go in and glance at it like its not mine and hopefully I'll listen to it for what it might need. I also did a couple of lengths of big stitch embroidery on the landscape piece. The ore I handle it and pull stuff through with the stitches, the more shreddy it's looking too. If anybody sees a call for shredding or shredded quilts, give me a holler. As if.
The reason I went to the studio to begin with was to grab another circular needle for the vest. I had the first side all finished- it's only joined at the back center seam, and I was about 3/4 of the way finished on the second side. But then I remembered back when I started side #1 I was afraid it wouldn't be long enough so I added 2". UNFORTUNATELY, and true-to-form, I didn't make any notes on what I did so I spent three hours last night counting stitches to find out how I got the two extra inches. Never did find the point so I ripped out one whole back, the side and around to the front to within 2" of the lacework. Then I put them all back on the needle and counted again and I am still way over what I should have- puzzling because the lacework matches perfectly in both pieces so it has to be added in the small space I haven't yet ripped. I know you don't have a clue what I'm talking about... Anyway I now have to reknit all this territory all over gain and that means counting counting counting. Tonights project. Thanksgod I am not paying for this by the hour.
The green parts are the area of my brain that tells me to give it up, the blue is the OCD parts that tell me I have to finish it
Nobody said anything about yesterday's albino alligator- is anybody out THERE????
Some art I am loving today:
This week was the launch of Developer Trays, a new book from powerHouse Books that brings together Cyr’s photographs of trays from 80 artists including Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind, Lillian Bassman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sally Mann, Elliott Erwitt, and even Cyr himself. Photographs from the book are also on display at the PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo. Cyr has long worked as a darkroom printer and although those very spaces of chemistry and process are fading he saw a value in examining this artifact.
Using layers of hand cut wood and spray paint, Joe Iurato narrates his life story by placing his defining moments in a miniature form around the streets and parks of NYC. Using the same style he used to do for large scale street art pieces, Iurato creates small figures and finds imaginative places to put them in this big world. The figures represent different stages in his life and he leaves them to interact with the environment and the community in whatever ways they see fit.
Since nobody commented on the albino alligator I will up it a notch and present this to you and I DARE you not to comment. Meet the Naked Mole Rat, cute little hands, eh?
Are you screaming to being back the squirrels yet?
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Keep the rate. Give us back the albino alligator. Mech on the trays. Loved the beachcomber animal sculpture.
Deanna
Squirrels please.
I keep forgetting to ask you what interested you in squirrels.
I am sure you know that there is a Sandy the Squirrel in SpongeBobSquarePants? She lives under water with a sort of fishbowl globe over her head when she is in the water and a sort of airfilled dome with grass and trees where her house is. SpongeBob and Patrick have to wear waterfilled fishbowl globes over their heads when they visit...going through an airlock.
Stop me if you have heard this...
;-) Anyway, that comes from having a son and a husband who loved the random silliness of that programme. My husband has a lego set of the Crusty Crab restaurant (where SpongeBob works) of course.
Sandy over here.
See, much better than unflavoured animals!
That's an ugly little bugger - bring back the squirrels.
There is an exhibit of naked mole rats at the Portland zoo. They look like a terrible mistake. My grandson always wants to see them, then squeezes his eyes shut and shudders from head to toe. The alligator was cool. Looked like he was carved from Ivory soap.
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