dc91: Discovery and dc87: Shelter
I came up with an idea for the drawing challenge this past weekend, and my results, after a series of unfortunate mishaps, are less than satisfactory, but nonetheless are shown here. This is a puzzle purse that we will discover...
...shows us a poem that slowly presents itself as we open the puzzle purse:
And reveals more as it is fully opened:
There are two layers of discovery for me personally. One is how I handle it when things go completely wrong (with the realization of my art idea anyway.) In the end, I willfully forced myself to complete the purse. I'd spent two days designing it; one day learning how to fold it; one day trying to make a nice finished one which I had to abandon; and one day trying out another nice finished one which I realized that was NOT going to work (once again). I decided to finish that last one to the final and bitter (on my part) end. Here is what I had to work with (or against):
1. every single type of paper I could find around here (I have lots) would NOT accept the india ink without bleeding;
2. my favourite nib pen was dropping the nib and was so loose the nib would fall out on its' own and would not allow me to make a line in an upwards or even sideways motion so that absolutely every mark was made in a downward direction;
3. as I was making a mark the nib was so wobbly it wiggled from side to side every step along the way;
4. the nib finally crumbled right onto the work surface;
5. my only other choice was a huge nib meant for poster work. You can see the change in the mark-making.
6. my earlier designs were too fat and would not fold:
Here is my original design plan prototype:
The puzzle purse is a poem and meant to be carried as an amulet or a prayer. I plan to carry this with me even though it is a dog's breakfast of ugly. Here is the poem:
GOD SEND US A LITTLE HOME
God send us a little home
to come back to when we roam-
Low walls and fluted tiles
Wide windows, a view for miles-
Red firelight and deep chairs;
small white beds upstairs,
Great talks in little nooks;
dim colours, rows of books,
One picture on each wall;
not many things at all.
God send us a little ground-
Tall trees standing round,
Homely flowers on brown sod,
Overhead, the stars, O God!
God bless, when winds blow,
our home and all we know.
What I discovered personally, was the kind of home I would like. I want a small orchard, and chickens, and a strawberry patch, and flowers. I want my home to be kind of exotic.
As this lends itself to the theme SHELTER, I decided to combine two drawing challenges in one. I am very late for a few of them it seems.
Thank you for dropping in today and to see more work with these two themes drop by to see
Emily who is the host for DISCOVERY, and
Renilde who is the host for SHELTER.
See you soon, I hope! *smiles* Norma*
