Daily Art- New Work- Name your Poision

‘Name your Poison’

8.5″ x 11.5″

Laminated paper collage

Will need a standard frame to display

Here is the quote that helped the inspiration:

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

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This work is paper on heavy card stock then laminated. I am working on a large canvas mixed media work, have been for a week or more now. I also was finally able to unpack all of the studio boxes full of the paper I hauled across the country. Gave up space in the trailer to make room for a few boxes of paper, vintage pictures, collected fine hand made paper, vintage magazines, snips of pictures, pages ripped out of books because I could only afford so much weight in the trailer for my enormous book collection. In sorting, and sorting I have been collage/mixed media crazy. It’s so fun to pull out the bags and tins that I carefully sorted and packed so many moons ago. This one small collage came from the sorting effort. I needed to create, had little time, and a small box of pre-cut images. The laminator got unpacked…and that’s all she wrote folks. It came together pretty quick and in the moment.

This work is a little about anger, a little about family life, a little about humanity, a little about not enough love, a little about fire in the belly, a little about fear, a little about personal power…a little about me.

I love collage and mixed media for the effect that it has on my brain. I can’t think beyond does this fit? Is that right? Is this what I want to say? Ohhh, can I fit that in? I love it.

I hope everyone is enjoying their day in the world today,

Heather

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Daily Art- New Work-Shedding

Full Work

Detail

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full image

‘Shedding’

18″ x 24″

oils and mixed media

finished sides/ready to hang

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Shedding one’s skin.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

So do the spirits who are prevented

from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

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Shedding, this is the second work I have completed this month.

We seem as a family, to be in a constant state of shedding. So many layers of of what we know, peeled back only to find we don’t know, what we don’t know.

The journey in this life so far, has revealed to me that I don’t need to know what is going to happen next. The reality (for many out here) this reality we are living is fractured, broken from the inside as a society. There are so many new people, ideas, and inventions on our horizon, that it’s ok if we don’t know everything. What is not OK is to sell ourselves short as a people. We do not need all the stuff we want. The world holds the new and shiny out in front of us and tells us…”come on over here, spend money you don’t have so you can have this thing. Don’t mind the economic slavery bit, it won’t hurt much, and after a while you will become numb to it all. You will forget that you once cared for your inner self as much as you care of your shiny things.” We as a family have shed the weight of all that shiny stuff. We will no longer want what we don’t need. Simple.

In that vein, we have taken all the money that has been made in the last 45 days with art sales and built an above ground organic garden. We will be growing almost everything we need for the summer. We are also planning to year round garden, so we will be eating fresh through all the seasons, and canning/freezing the rest for the coldest months. We shed our want for an easy life of convenience, and choose to grow our own food. We are even getting some chickens, right here in our urban garden, we will wait no more for what is needed.

Food prices are insane, gas will be at 4.00 a gallon in a month or two and we can not continue to leave our families well being and state of mind in the hands of the unqualified wealthy. I don’t want to buy a tomato for 3.00 a pound, that was trucked in for at least 1500 miles, because I can grow my own. I will not be dependent on this system for things like food, housing, clothing and vehicles. Self suffincency starts now, not when we can afford it. If it dosen’t start now, it may never get started at all.

Shedding is my homage to the act of letting the world and all it’s noise go. Living in a sustainable way now, and being free of economic slavery. Yes, I got all that from some old dead leaves, tiny mirrors and some oil paint. Pretty groovy huh?

*Grins*

I hope your day is full to the brim with all that you need.

Heather

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Daily art- Putting it all together

Full assemblage on a pretty table top

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Closeup of the left panel

close up of the right panel

Close up detail

‘Putting it all together’
10″ high X 16.5 wide”
Mixed Media/Collage & Acrylics
in a Vintage Solid Wood Swivel Table top Frame.

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The Quote that inspired the work:
“Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture,
and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. “
~Kahlil Gibran
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Vintage wooden frame,
and two collaged 5″X 7″ panels made up primarily
of one of my own works cut up and re-worked in smaller bits. love it. I had a lot of fun working on her, and I think it shows. She seemed to come together as if by magic, while I cleaned out my “vault” of older works, I am finding new inspiration in my exploration of my recent past…now isn’t that a nice change of pace?

Being able to look back over the recent past and feel
Good about where I have been, and where I am going.
This is my mark, leaving my bread crumb trail back to myself, speaking in symbols, textures and Bold Color…with a nod to the “good old days” with the Vintage Frame that yelled at me when I found it in a throw away pile at a yard sale…screamed “Take me home!” So I did.
And this is what happened….
On the right panel the fortune cookie on it says:

“Depart not from the path which fate has you assigned.”
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Thank you for being here today,

Heather

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