Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
This guy was kind of hard to get a good picture. It is a book, with an altoid tin and a rusty something or other.
This is a stainless steel serving tray that I covered with an unusual modeling material and painted. I used golden acrylics and pinata alcohol inks.
This is a hollowed out book covered with modeling paste. The wire is from a wire basket I got at a garage sale recently. The rusty thing on the top edge is part of a mower, I think, that I found on the grounds of the high school. The eye shaped thing is the handle to some kind of silver bowl.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
n. pl. detritus
1. Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock.
2.a. Disintegrated or eroded matter: the detritus of past civilizations.
b. Accumulated material; debris:
I love this term, detritus, and keep thinking of it as I go through all the accumulated junk I have. I hope to do a series of pieces with this in mind. This first one is about stuff that we throw away regularly. It contains a couple of computer boards, an old cd, bottle cap, can lid, car door handle, styrene foam and plastic packaging from something.
This girl started after I was looking at some pictures on line of Dada Dolls. I used a tiny chocolate tin and an old doll. Her top is a plastic bag melted with a heat gun right on to her body (ouch! she said) the bottom is a recycled tea bag.
This started out with the drink mixer thing in the center and was going to be a doll. I was never satisfied with the way he looked. I had the book that had been glued shut. textured and had buttons glued on. I decided to combine the two projects and thus created Book People.
This is yet another RD condensed book. It is closed and glued together. I hollowed out a large space in the middle. In it is a little Japanese box, a discarded watch that someone sent me (it was still ticking the last time I looked) and some metal found objects.
A friend gave me some old jewelery and buttons that she wanted to discard. In the box was this wonderful giraffe. I decided to honor him with a shadow box that housed an old spice men's gift in a former life. Old encyclopedia pages covered the back and I added some occotillo skeletons to the jewelry from the box.
I started with a Readers Digest Condensed book opened flat to the middle, Then I folded pages in the center and glued and pressed them down. I painted with azo gold and some interference blue. Then I added some metal goodies that were lying around the studio.