These playing card collages were made and distributed at the Sugar Loaf Mountain complex in (near?) Rio by Cláudia, who does not have a blog. What Cláudia had to say the process of making these and letting go of them:
I got attached to the cards I manipulated! So attached that I considered taking pictures of them and simply collect them all at the end and bring my babies back home again, with "mummy". God! It's a challenge to let go of things that we have carefully created . I was ashamed to be so selfish, so childish!
Then, it happened: I finally made up my mind to leave some of the cards and stepped back to observe people's reaction to them. And people were stopping to see my gifts! They didn't take them, but those "alien" objects did awake interest, curiosity and amazement. That was enough for me - I felt really rewarded and just walked away happy to have been able to create opportunities to make people stop and wonder.
Those of us who work in the arts will recognize this feeling.
Bungy32 also wrote a beautiful ( and somewhat startling) post to go with the valentine he made and placed, and there is magnificent trio at
Titus the Dog. Jasmine has plans for bringing an early Spring with her contribution at
Nature's Whispers.Wind beneath my occasionally draggled wings - I love you guys!
Unrelated to cards, I just saw these lovely images on
Resurrection Fern - If I have to pick one, it would be the mushroom/jellyfish/heart at the bottom, I love a multiple nature. More delight on
Three Little Cameras. Also I posted on from Shakespeare on my other blog,
TinyTheatre.
One of a small ( they are 5" high by 3 inches wide) series of nine curiosities I made by affixing bits of nature found on the ground to antique photos. Four more from the series on Tinytheatre.
These playing card collages were made and distributed at the Sugar Loaf Mountain complex in (near?) Rio by Cláudia, who does not have a blog. What Cláudia had to say the process of making these and letting go of them:
Some cards from an antique Parker Brothers card game called "Quit" which I have collaged. I placed them around the neighborhood on Christmas Day for people to find. The journey of the cards is visually documented on TinyTheatre if you would like to take a look. The next illustration challenge will be a collage challenge and will be related to these. Don't forget about the January 1 links post for This month's!
I did this awhile back, it's actually the "No Mind" part of "No matter, never mind" duo, of which my friend Katherine has the other piece. She does look like she's up to something (what's behind her back?), so it could be Lady MacBeth. Katherine has just done me the honor of including a piece of mine in an essay about her collage favorites on Etsy. You can see her beautiful work on Etsy here .
Today's post for Illustration Friday is dedicated to Katherine and Kate, who are both moving house.
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