Homecoming

Another in the Altered Ancestors series, I'm going to enter it in a juried show with theme of "landscape". I'm all over the place right now, as you can see...just a common thread, I guess...

Something else to open

Doors on trickhouse, my own assemblage story is behind one of them. Cool sound effects - check it out!

Above is a detail of an assemblage made in an antique portable writing desk, similar to the one featured on trickhouse.

Made for Aid

This reversible wall hanging is for sale at the Made for Aid Etsy Store, along with other items suitable for Christmas giving, including scarves for wintry weather. All proceeds go to charity, see the Made for Aid website for more details.

Listen...

The most essential sound of summer for me is the fluting voice of the doves, it's so away/distant and inside/close at the same time.

More about this work on the Tinytheatre blog. I love my drill, I don't care what the Freud dude says.

Stories of the Spinning World

Suspicious

Eviscerated and rearranged book about Michelangelo - the detail you see is from a portrait of Michelangelo painted by his friend Giuliano Bugiardini. Little holes on the right hand corner evidently made by a mouse who changed his mind about the taste of the High Rensaissance, or perhaps it was the Medicis who put him off...

This may be a cousin of this prose poem on Aleph, or is it only the color that makes me think so?

There are some wonderful stories in the comments section of the post below. I love you for your minds...

King of Birds #2

And this is the second version.

Well, folks, it appears the battery is pretty low here, I'm going to be taking a few days off from posting and probably from visiting.

Book Posts for Thursday

This is one of my assemblages from some years ago, made in the old-fashioned equivalent of a laptop, a portable writing desk. It's a book of sorts, a meditation on illusion (or is it inspiration, or both?), the breaking up of same, and the cycle starting again. To see the whole story, Here's a link to TinyTheatre. Here's a link also to my sister Aleph, who has a related post today.

Tomorrow I'm going to link to posts about books - let me know if you have posted something before the end of the day tomorrow, your own book or a book you liked, or bookmaking, and I will link in tomorrow's post.

The Crime as Assemblage

Here's the same subject as previous post as an assemblage I did maybe 15 years ago - not a very good photo, but you get the idea. The Queen is yelling "Stop, Thief" - redly.

Anima Mundi

And here face down beneath the sun

And here upon earth's noonward height

To feel the always coming on,

The always rising of the night.

               from You, Andrew Marvell, Archibald MacLeish

This is one of my assemblages, it is like the card for The World in the tarot Deck.

A deep imagining emerges as we live, exposed to all our sentient outcomes... Such possibilities become especially vivid when we are feeling vulnerable...It is an excited, animated vision of our own potentially transformed being.

          from Life Imagining Life: Going to the Deep Roots of Learning, Marc Briod (well worth a read)