My roommate put one of my stickers on her guitar :)
Just a few more weeks…
Happy New Year!! Only one more month left to go see my mandala and the rest of the Hard Twist 7- Touch Me, Feel Me- textile arts show at the Gladstone Hotel. The last day will be January 27, 2013.
I’ve re-discovered “gelly roll” pens…
I made a sticker for my computer
:)
For Anyone who’s interested in knowing more about mandalas and why I like to make them:
a mandala a day…
good ol’ ballpoint
Hey, I’ve been doing some drawing in my sketchbook lately, still making mandalas…
Flower of Life
I was able to do a lot conceptual work on this piece and planned it all out to make it symmetrical and balanced. Which made it was easy for me to calculate how much of each of the materials I used in total:
66 pop tabs, 68 wine bottle lids, 26 bread-tags, 40 toilet paper rolls, 28 Danactive bottles, 84 yogurt cups, 23 lightbulbs, 20 bottle seals, 12 plastic drink bottles, 36 pudding cups, 11 hotel snack tin bottoms, 28 hotel snack tin lids, 160 juice/milk/cream carton seals with loop, and the only thing I can’t really be sure of is how many phone/electrical cords, cables, and wires I worked with….. Everything is attached to a chicken wire base using sewing and crochet techniques.
Thanks to everyone who helped me collect items for this piece. much love!
Mandala Installation day-at last!
Here it is on the floor of the Gladstone hotel yesterday, I had to spend some time reshaping it and fixing things after I was forced to fold it and crumple it and literally slam the door on it to get into the car to transport it from my house in the rain. I was so focused on finishing the piece all month I didn’t spend much time thinking about moving something of that scale. haha…always learning. It turned out well anyway the materials I worked with are wonderfully resilient. I will be going back soon with my good camera to take some pictures of it hung on the wall. I’m very happy with how it looks. So more pictures to come! Tonight is the opening! Come see it in the flesh…as well as all the other talented textile artist’s work in the show!
Photo credit and a Giant Thanks to my friend Dave for helping me transport and install this piece.
