tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35739774310285249462024-03-13T20:41:29.408-03:00the little pink house studioOcean-obsessed photography, artist books, craft, greeting cards and beach objet trove assemblagelittlepinkhousestudiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316627024865350036noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573977431028524946.post-47687810937795706512018-03-11T12:50:00.000-03:002018-03-11T12:50:03.357-03:00The Ice Pan ComethWell, it’s been a wild ride here this winter. Wild as in wildly swinging temperatures and lots of precip, very little of it snow. “She’s some slippy eh?”. You could luge from the house to the car. Last weekend we set out for a nice country dog walk. It ended abruptly 10 feet from the car. <br />
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By the ocean, when rapidly dropping temperature occur during relatively calm seas and an outgoing tide, a very unusual and lovely ice forms: </div>
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This is called “frazil” ice. It is an accumulation of thin layers of freshwater crystals, the beginning phase of sea ice. I could explicate with some heavy-duty physics the mechanics of how this ice ends up not salty. I am primarily taken with it’s beauty. That, and the fact that it makes me think of frozen Margaritas. Admit it, you thought so too.<br />
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These ice-topped intertidal rocks remind one of iced buns. They are covered with "glaze ice”. </div>
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That slushy, pre-consolidated sea ice often found at the shore is called “shuga”. Which makes me think of The Archies. Which makes me think I have too much working memory taken up with bad pop music. Oh shuga shuga. You are my candy girl.<br />
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So, we found ourselves short on ice for our traditional Friday night Tiki Cocktail and thought, well, what the heck. When life gives you frazil, make Aurora Bora Bora Borealis cocktails!<br />
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We tried one and it was delish! The ice melts very slowly and is not salty due to the brine rejection effect during freezing. This video of the formation of a "brinicle" shows the process. It's like an underwater tornado. This may be one of the most amazing non-CGI ocean phenomena EVER. Unless you are a starfish. Just take a look:<br />
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While in the process of researching for this blog we had the most awesome ice spectacle you can ever experience here in the north atlantic - drift ice. <br />
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You may fall asleep to a seascape like this:<br />
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We have not had drift ice come into our bay for 3 or so years. Here it is a rather counter-intuitive sign of spring.</div>
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It makes the most lulling 'shushhh shushhh shushhh' sound as it laps onto the beach. </div>
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It's the shushhhing of spring here in Cape Breton.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">After a glorious summer and autumn we had our first big storm. It was a bit of business as usual for us at the pink house where the wind routinely blows in four directions simultaneously. We were prepared. I decided I would use the housebound day without power to sit by the wood stove and work on my artist statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It's a beautiful exploration of three islands in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland owned by the author. Adam Nicolson "inherited the islands when he was twenty-one and in this spellbinding and luminous book, he recalls his keenly deep connection to the wild, windswept, and yet enchantingly beautiful property...exploring his complicated relationship to the paradoxes of island life and the wonder of revelatory engagement with our natural world". A perfect read while the storm raged about us in our little house out on the point where we are sometimes an island ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Chapter 6 revolves around the finding of a bronze age piece of celtic tribal jewelry near the islands. Objects like this immediately become the property of the queen and must be reported to the authority that governs these finds. This official enforces the laws around maritime salvage. A number of countries have once of these people, traditionally called upon to keep law and order after shipwrecks. They prevented pillage, and policed the terrible practice of luring ships onto the rocks. Anything washing up on the beach became the responsibility of this person. </span></div>
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littlepinkhousestudiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316627024865350036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573977431028524946.post-59676327850029886802017-01-04T15:21:00.000-04:002017-01-04T15:21:28.424-04:00Looking vs. Seeing2017. A whole new year of beachcombing ahead! <br />
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As I sit at my desk facing Gabarus Bay I am watching a nice nor'easter tear away at the beach behind the house. All summer long we have had calm seas and constructive waves. Now we are into the season of wildly destructive wave action. Always a little frightening if you live 30 yards from the north atlantic, but a thrilling time if you are a beachcomber. Pickins have been slim the last few months. Treasures few. We needed a good churn.<br />
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Lately my reading and t.v. watching has been decidedly Anglo-centric. Historical London seems to be a theme. I re-read an excellent book about the sewers of London:<br />
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Did someone once say you could tell things about a culture by the things they throw away? If not, I have just made that clever observation. The sheer amount of crap (literally and figuratively) that either flowed or was tossed into the Thames is mind boggling, and a little disgusting. To a beachcomber, hundreds of years of human presence along this river makes the banks of this famous tidal river a dream destination. I must go.<br />
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Mudlarking, as it was called, was traditionally done by the poor - either children or the elderly - who scavenged for trinkets to sell. It was nasty work, dragging around through muck and raw sewage and occasionally encountering human and cat and dog carcasses. <br />
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Today, mudlarking in London is a hobby, a tourist activity and very carefully regulated. The things people find are amazing. This is an excellent book that has just been released about mudlarking finds.<br />
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My little beach has seen only 300 years of "official" continuous occupation (the Mi'kmaq presence would predate this considerably, hence the " " ). Much of what might have been thrown into the ocean has either rusted into oblivion or broken into smithereens by the relentless ocean. Some days I am happy for a single sad sliver of beach glass. One cannot be too goal directed in beachcombing I think. The more one hopes and wants to find something, the less likely it is to appear. A kind of Murphy's law of beachcombing. Still, amazement sometimes happens.<br />
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Object lesson. Over the years I'd been collecting these tiny white tubes from a beach that was once the location of a number of fishing wharves and a lobster factory. I hadn't given much thought to what these white tubes were, assuming they were likely part of some kind of electrical wiring system. I don't remember the moment of revelation when I discovered they were actually clay pipe stems at least a century old. And I had dozens of them. <br />
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They fascinate me. They are a direct link with people who would have worked, fished and smoked in the very place I now walk and swim. It seems just a little magical that these fragile things would have survived time and tide. But here's the thing. While I've found stems, I've never found a pipe bowl. Never. Likely being more fragile they would break apart quicker. Stems, stems stems....<br />
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This morning I was walking by the cabinet that is littered with my daily haul of beach stuff and was rooting around for shells when I came upon this:<br />
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I don't remember where and when I picked it up but on closer inspection I thought it looked unlike all the pottery shards I've found. More archaic. A little bit of research confirmed that, YES, it is a fragment of a pipe bowl! Take a look:<br />
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Have the caps and fancy font convinced you? Well, it was exciting enough to revive my moribund blog in order to share this with you. Coincidentally, this discovery dovetails with my resolution this year to be just a little bit more mindful in my travels in this beachy world I inhabit.</div>
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littlepinkhousestudiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316627024865350036noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573977431028524946.post-26824150038484336022015-12-29T16:01:00.002-04:002015-12-29T16:01:21.454-04:00Look who's drifted back in on the 2016 tide!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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For those of you who don't know me, I live in a little pink house by the ocean. When we bought it, there wasn't much pink left on the outside</div>
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It took about 3 years to restore it so it would be <i>in the pink</i> again.</div>
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Although it took much work, and all the money we (and the bank) had, it's a pretty enchanting little spot. One of the delights of this place was a massive mound of pink and white rosebushes that grew to the east of the house. It was as if the little pink house grew from these roses, rather than the other way around.</div>
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The rose bushes bloom their little hearts out from July 1 through til the first frost, and then beyond. I've catalogued the last rose arriving as late as November 21. Patriotic roses that they are, they form a pact to give their biggest show on Canada Day. This year I was up on the ladder staining the house ("Pink?" you ask. "Ah, yes. I reply" rolling my eyes imperceptibly). Just before I fell off the ladder I snapped this shot of the roses doing their thing:<br />
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One side of the booming behemoth is white, the other side pink. They now commingle in the spot where the surveyors hacked a swath right through them. They've rebounded, unified and determined. They're spreading. If you look a little further down the point you'll see mound after mound after mound. There was once a road there. Not long ago. As I've discovered, Rosa Rugosa is an invasive species. Can we hold that against them?<br />
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An artist friend recently challenged me to "make some darn art" (thank you Lynda Lou!) from this flowering mass of inspiration. So for her, I'm posting a few of my efforts celebrating the roses of summer and the little pink house:<br />
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A few photos of roses taken from inside the house:<br />
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I had the *inspired* idea one day of creating a photo homage to the house by showering and garlanding it with roses. As I was doing this solo I was both the thrower of petals and the photographer. There was much mad dashing around with petals and cameras. Consequently, every photo is a bit wonky and blurry. "Tripod?" you suggest, rolling <i>your</i> eyes imperceptibly.<br />
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We have experienced roses with all our senses. Breathed, drank and eaten roses. Rose petals, harvested at their prime and placed in a sealed jar with sugar will scent the sugar. I've opened the jars in the deepest of winter and smelled the gentle reminder of summer blooms. </div>
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We've made batch after batch of rose hip jelly. However, it appears that only my mother-in-law Marie has the gift of getting this elixir to gel. Mostly I've made rose hip syrup. But as I like to say, when life gives you roses, make rose (imagine an accent over the e). A bit of it in the bottom of a glass of champagne will blush up your bubbly.<br />
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This spring I've been working with this image.<br />
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I'm recycling some of the print proofs printed on Japanese paper by using them on lids of handmade boxes:<br />
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In fact, my love of rose extends to an ambitious project to photograph every pink house on the planet. So far I have two. I may need help with this.<br />
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Turns out I even bleed a kind of pinkish colour. But this is not art, this is the by-product of art. Injury.<br />
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As I am now seriously injured I'm taking some time off of making things and stopping to smell the roses. I hope you get time to smell them too. Before we look again, they will be gone.<br />
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<i>Enjoy yourself. While you're still in<span style="color: magenta;"> </span>the<span style="color: magenta;"> pink</span>.</i></h3>
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Who doesn't love the Moonsnail? Who can resist the geometric perfection of this elegant gastropod?<br />
I can't. I've been obsessed with collecting, photographing, drawing, casting, glueing and generally fawning over <i>Lunatia Heros</i> since I arrived in Cape Breton.</div>
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littlepinkhousestudiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316627024865350036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573977431028524946.post-80436831027261685652012-11-19T22:18:00.006-04:002012-11-19T22:18:51.819-04:00ShoreplayLate autumn on the beach is perhaps more visually arresting than a perfect summer day.<br />
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The charming yet durable beach pea has withered, and large banks of seaweed mound on the shoreline. The far-as-the-eye-can-see roses are gone, save an ambitious late-bloomer or two. They leave a stunning legacy - the mellowest of deep orange foliage studded with apple-crimson rose hips. Wow. Talk about going out in a blaze of glory.<br />
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The winter's firewood is on it's way into the crib, hopefully stacked before the first snow. We're ready. Almost.<br />
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In the midst of these acts of hibernation prep I've been recreating carefree summer days at the beach in my 2013 calendar "Shoreplay". The theme is just that - playing with things I've found at the shore. Finally, a use for the baskets and more baskets and more bigger baskets of shells, driftwood and </div>
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Boy, I had SUCH FUN making this calendar. At the end I decided I had missed my career calling as a "shell stylist". If you see any want ads for this job please let me know. I can make a shell do almost anything. Smile for the camera, baby.</div>
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The larger one is 4 x 7. The smaller one is a business-card sized teeny tiny pocket desk calendar. </div>
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Each month has a different shell or beach find posing attractively for the camera. Here are a few of 'em:</div>
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The large calendar is $20. It comes with a lovely cardboard mailer box which goes through the mail slot with letter postage rates. </div>
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Handy for gifts that need mailing. The tiny calendar is $10. </div>
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They are freshly back from the printer and I do hope you'll consider them when you're planning your gift-giving this season. </div>
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I can mail any quantity anywhere anytime!</div>
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I've also done a line of notecards based on these images:</div>
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That's what I need. A good slap to propel me out of summer into....Christmas production. Yes, Christmas. Again? Really? It seems it happens almost every year, this Christmas thing. I'm barely out of my Thanksgiving tryptophan haze. I blame it all on this <i>unprecidentiallyiffiliicious</i> summer. Relentless, day-after-day sunshine and warmth. Freakishly so. Surely there is a weather debt that will now require repayment. How about 5 months of snow?</div>
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...beginning with squid. Great mounds of rotting squid. Surely an omen, now, for hot weather ahead?<br />
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This trip was followed with the annual Ordering of the Topsoil ritual, in anticipation of actual (or potential) Planting of Things. Amazingly, Things were actually Planted this year, though a half-tandem load of soil remains in the yard. It's weeding over nicely and will soon become A Landform.</div>
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Followed by a trip down memory lane to visit our New Brunswick relatives, gloriously alive and inexorably dead. </div>
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Then....inconveniently occurring throughout the summer there were moments of WORK. Yes, the dreaded 4 letter word. I received commissions. I had to put down that drink, rise from the adirondack chair and craft. </div>
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So very <i>exhausting</i> were those episodes of turning one's hand to labour </h3>
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This spring I had an FB conversation with a young Cape Breton expat artist about the state of art making on this island. Her point, a<i> bit</i> caustically put, was that we only exhibit art that is, and I quote: "b***hit SAFE work, s**t for the middle aged woman of the island to gawk at and buy up to put in their bathrooms", and that we are left with "boring watercolours of lighthouses and sailboats painted on rocks". Young artists, she maintained, were forced to "f**k off somewhere else" to work.<br />
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Being both a middle aged woman and a person who has shilled production craft for the tourist market, I was a wee bit undone buy this comment. Sure, it's easy to diss the commercialization of art and craft in tourist areas such as this, and yes, one more piece of (sadly, rather unattractively coloured) CB tartan on one more doll might make me colourfully profane too....if I were young and artistically disenfranchised. However, I may just have a lighthouse or 3 in my house. One might even be in my bathroom *cringes*. And I have pictures of fishing boats. I am an art pariah.<br />
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In fact, 4 of my most favourite handmade things feature fishing boats. I have a verisimilitudinal (yes! 40 point word score!) etching by the enviably gifted William Rogers of lobster boats wheeling around in the surf on Bird Islands-<br />
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Over my bed I have a truly sublime yarn hooked tapestry of Dingwall fishing boats at dock by South Harbour artist Claudia Gahlinger:<br />
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This will be the second thing, next to my fat jeans, that I grab for should there be a fire in the house. Everything else can go.<br />
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Last week I was at the <a href="http://www.invernessarts.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Inverness County Centre for the Arts</span></a> and found these new fetish objects in their charming "Third Meadow' gift shop:<br />
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As Woody Allen said to Diane Keaton in <u>Annie Hall</u> when the word love wasn't intense enough, I <i>lurve</i> them. Ok, so, as I'm hoping you can see by now, dear reader, I am developing <b>A Theme</b>. For those of you whose thoughts are wandering to whether there are any chips in the house, I'll make it quick. I live this stuff. It's right out my window. In fact, here's the proof:<br />
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Frankly, I was once into edgy and urban. Growing up in Toronto I was drawn to half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats, Charles Bukowski, Talking Heads, Diane Arbus etc. I had a black leather jacket and...and....and I can't even remember what else may have been hip then. Tricoloured pasta? Parachute Club? It was <i>that</i> long ago. It all lacks relevance now. I live on a point of land with ocean all around it. Even if I'd hoped to get away from what may be perceived to be tired maritime imagery, I live it every day and it's real and authentic to me. So, if you can interpret what you see about you in a fresh and creative way, I say it's good.<br />
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For about 7 years I made books, albums and cards for the tourist market. I wholesaled to 40+ shops and made the same thing over and over and over....and over again. In the end, it was so creatively stultifying that I had to just put it all in a box for about 10 years.<br />
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I knew I was over the burnout when I could look into the box and not want to throw up. I had miles of lovely hand-dyed and hand-printed kozo paper bits left over from these years. An incontinent cat took care of about half of it. The remaining paper was too precious to heave out and needed repurposing. Out of that idea came a legion of tiny poem books:<br />
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They are tiny accordion fold books with poems by yours truly, all ocean-related, natch. They're about 2.5 x 3 inches and are twee.<br />
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Each is a unique design, they're all collages using this paper from my past production and some hand-cut rubber stamps. As you can see, these papers are neither barfed nor peed upon.<br />
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The poems are quasi-fridge magnet poetry. I cut out lines from the magazine <u>Coastal Living</u> and wrote poems around them. I'll spare you the poetry for now. Here are a few more wee bookies:<br />
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Oh, I can't resist. This one is my favourite so here's the poem. It's a haiku.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A summer mist</span><br />
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Summer mist falling<br />
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These tiny books are available at my exclusive retailer The Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design. They're about 7 or 8 dollars. If you think you lurve them and don't live here, I'll make you one and send it along. I have a list of poems, each one in some way related to our maritime culture. For less than 10 bucks you, too, can be a cliche. Especially if you're a middle-aged woman. I'll even make you one for your bathroom.</div>
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Here's one more video. I'd tried for days to get a lively shot of a fishing boat out back of my house but none came close enough. Turns out you have to get up mighty early to film a fishing boat here. Instead, I have a tiny boat dot and a bored dog for you:</div>
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It's been a busy winter.<br />
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Our group show "Home to Roost" at the Centre for Craft and Design was/is a success. People really responded to our bird theme. I had a unexpectedly enthusiastic response to my 4' x 14' cut paper instalment <u>Murder in the North End</u> (the show was jam packed with amazing work). I attribute the popularity of this piece to our collective fascination with crows as much as to the artistry.<br />
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Flying with the crow theme, I decided to use the motif again for my submissions to <a href="http://www.capebretoncraft.com/news-events/events/little-gems-small-works-fundraiser">Little Gems</a>, a fundraiser for the Centre on June 8. The deadline fast approaching, I, of course, decided to try making something completely outside of my skill set. Why not? And worse. Something requiring math. And accurate measuring. Neither of them my strong points.<br />
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Box making is an allied skill often grouped with bookbinding as these boxes are made using book board (a heavy cardboard), along with paper and glue and fabric. They can be exquisite. Or disastrous. I had 3 to make and 4 days to do it. First stop Michaels.<br />
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I decided to stamp the crow motifs. After impaling myself with the linoleum cutting tool a few times I decided to cut my images out of that soft foamy rubber stuff. I found a kid's sun visor and used that.<br />
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Fun fun fun. I got out my old stamp pads (crusty and dry) and my glitter (every girl should have some on hand) and this stuff that you could use to "emboss" a stamped design. I came perilously close to scrapbooking. Embossing stole my heart. What, by the way, has happened to the rubber stamping craze? As usual, I'm so behind the times I'm almost ahead. In my own mind.<br />
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I embossed until I had an accident. I needed an embossing intervention.<br />
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I identified with those crows who steal shiny things because they shine. Shiny makes me happy. Moving along.<br />
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With my papers all embossed with many shiny crows I then set to work acquiring the skill of box making. The first step is to cut out your box sides and lids using directions that read: "Make the left side 6 3/16 inches minus the thickness of your board times 2.5 and then subtract the width of the opposite end blah blah blah fraction blah blah blah". Something like that.<br />
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I quickly dumped the imperial measure for metric. Could there be anything more stupefying than "measure 6 and 3/16 inches and subtract 4 and 9/12ths of an inch"? Well, yeah, maybe not for <i>you</i>. For me it feels like I'm swimming through jello.<br />
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Despite this handicap I eyeballed my way towards a fairly square book board box:<br />
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I am now going to speed you through the process of making a box. <b>If I haven't already lost you</b>. I just really need for you to see how this is done. It puts me in mind of lace making with bobbins or hand felting or embroidery or counting angels on the head of a pin. It's a craft only for those with the luxury of a lot of time on their hands, such as the idle rich or people with loads of frozen dinners.<br />
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Take this big old funnel of paper and cut down the sides. All that paper is going to fold into the box and become the lining. Theoretically.<br />
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Glue up and add the embossed crow frieze. Put it on. Then remind yourself that the next time you should measure where it goes first. Or not. You're clearly gifted.<br />
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Cut a lid and paste paper onto it. At this point you can have an alcoholic beverage as the worst is over.<br />
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And low and behold. An actual box. With a lid. And it opens. And it doesn't fall over or list to the side. It's a box!<br />
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In fact, I managed to replicate the task twice over and made 2 more boxes for Little Gems. They all stand up and are somewhat square and true.<br />
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As a reward for the 3 of you who endured the vicarious stress (and boredom) of the box-making experience here is a short video of waves at our back beach. It's been an exceptionally calm ocean this week but for some reason these rollers have been coming in strong n' steady. </div>
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I'm part of a wonderful group show at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design called "Home to Roost". It's about birds. The show had it's "soft" opening last week. It's a terrific show. However, in the middle of the gallery is a stark empty plinth with my name on it. It should contain an installation I'm calling "Eat and/or be Eaten". It's essentially a showcase of the strange bones and avian artifacts I've collected over the years from the beach. Stuff like this: </div>
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Unfortunately, I discovered last week that I may have pitched most of my best pieces in the last house move. Or it crawled away. Anyway, last week I found myself with a pretty sparse and motley collection of ossuaria:</div>
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So I summoned my most effective beachcombing skill - magical thinking. Magical thinking is defined as "a causal reasoning that looks for correlations between acts and certain events". More simply put - conjuring. I felt (desperately) that if I brought all my powers to bear on the idea of finding bird bones I would. Magical thinking is described as "pre-logical". Right up my alley.</div>
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Scoff you may, but it's worked for me in the past. I've conjured red beach glass (rare). I've caused hundreds of tiny starfish to wash up so I could glue them on stuff (things sell quicker with starfish stuck on them). By far my best magical thinking was the summer that "face wood" magically appeared to me, like Jesus on a Tim Horton's wall. </div>
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It was such a great summer for face wood I soon had an enviable collection for my wall. My friends were jealous. I had so many I invested in glass eyes for them. </div>
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I found so many that I'd begun to think that I was causing them to appear just for me. I WAS.THEY WERE.</div>
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So, I set out on Saturday to the really big beach, the one we call "The Really Big Beach", with my trusty bone-sniffing dog and a Sobey's bag. I was goin' a-conjurin'.</div>
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And this is what myself and Jook the Blog Dog found:</div>
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Vertebra. Many of them. A spooky amount of them. All seal (let's hope).</div>
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So. Do stop by and see our exhibit if you're in Sydney in the next month. You'll find wonderful work by potter Sarah Beck, multi-media painting by Teena Marie Fancey, intricate wire wrapped pieces by Gayle Bird (she had to be in the show on account of her name), fantastic and fanciful fibre art by Joan Mackenzie, paper and book and bone art by yours truly, and basketry and felting by our exhibit curator Shari MacLeod. Imagination takes flight!</div>
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I took my Valentine "impression" theme from the impressions left in the snow by the wee beasties prowling around my house at night. A fresh fall of snow finds them out - the night foragers and freeloaders circling us in search of a crust of bread and such or a compost bin amuse bouche.<br />
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So. I set about to create my own impression casts, using paper pulp in handmade wax casts. In my imagination these were to be lovely roughly-textured paper hearts that I intended to call "Rough Hearts". Unfortunately, there is sometimes a disconnect from head to hand. Sunday I just could not translate my idea from head to hand....to heart. </div>
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Here it is cast in kozo paper pulp. A very successful cast.<br />
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I tried the same thing with a net bait bag, starfish, and some cheap silver plate serving platters from Valu Village.<br />
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I did get 3. And frankly, they suck. 2 of them look like toilet paper confections. One of them (the bait bag net textured heart) looks awfully like a paper sanitary item belonging to women....or a used chunk of Charmin. Nothing says "I love you" like a used toilet paper card. <br />
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My heart just wasn't in it.</div>
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I don't care anyway because I have a special hate-on for the occassion this year as it's the first anniversary of the passing of my beloved Clover, a.k.a. "<strong>The Big Bitch</strong>". <br />
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I have a lot of unformed ideas in my imagination. <em>Unformed Ideas</em>. This is art-speak. Code for "<em>I don't really have anything</em>". In real life terms this means, for example: "I have <em>unformed funds</em> in which to pay my credit card bill". Or: "I have an <em>unformed ability</em> to come to work today". The underlying meaning of this multi-purpose phrase in my case is "<em>I am pathetic and have nothing to give".</em><br />
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I've been inspired lately by the art of a local guy, <strong>Gary Addicott</strong>. Gary was recently juried by the Centre for Craft and Design and his work enthusiastically received because of the freshness of his creative vision. While he looks to other art - pop, op, dada, indigenous etc - how he incorporates these influences are clearly "Gary". This is a Ghostwalker beetle. If you could see the detail work in the patterning it would take your breath away. Truly original.<br />
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Traditionally, when faced with a crisis of creativity I turn to the internet. It has always been a creative tool and friend in my most desperate hour. I troll, spiral, and stumble upon things. Bask in the blue glow of possibility. However, like sleeping in and chocolate, I'm starting to think it's something I've got to give up. And here's why:<br />
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Last summer, my creative-co-conspirator <a href="http://allmyfancey.blogspot.com/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Teena Marie Fancey</span></a> and I worked on an installation for <strong>Lumiere</strong> - a free night of public art in Sydney (it's a cousin to <strong>Nuit Blanche</strong>). Our concept was a challenge to ourselves - to take plastic garbage we'd collected off our respective beaches in Margaree Harbour and Gabarus - and using nothing but our keen imagination and our soft little hands - make this crap into something resembling an imaginary marine world. At the time it may have been more of an excuse to spend the summer walking the beach.<br />
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Teena was more dedicated than I, truthfully. By summer's end she'd scavenged carloads of stinking plastic trash which she dutifully cleaned off and untangled. She had "<em>the vision</em>" Her husband was about to put her on that show about hoarders. I hated to admit that I'd <em>had</em> the vision but must have dropped it in the sand somewhere and lost it. I only really had one thing to bring to this installation: plastic jellyfish bottles. I could see a sea of gently floating blue-glowing bottle jellies that our viewers would wander amongst, enraptured. This is a perfect example of the concept "<strong>unformed idea</strong>". <br />
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We worked hard, Teena and I, to "form" this idea. After 50 bucks worth of helium and balloons we couldn't make them float. $200 worth of cheap Chinese novelty lights couldn't get them to glow either. There were moments of desperation.<br />
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They were pretty cool, along with an ocean floor of interesting "corals" and "shoals" made out of shotgun casings and detergent bottles and old rubber gloves. All Teena's work, btw. Teen's an idea "former". You want her on your team.</div>
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Imagine, then, dear blogplodder, the day I search the internet for some new inspiration and I find this artist, half way around the globe, has stolen my idea....<em>a year before I even formed it</em>. How could she, Miwa Koizumi, be reading my mind into the future? I can't even read my own mind past lunchtime. Plus, she'd read my mind so very carefully as to put even more detail into these bottle jellyfish than I'd known I'd visioned.</div>
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And there you have the internet inspiration conundrum. At which point do you find the internet has gone a bit beyond creative tool to become a brain worm? Okay, I'm sounding a little unhinged with the brain worm thing, but think about it. When does the surfing, the absorbing, the unconscious borrowing of ideas and images taint your own authentic creative voice?<br />
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In my case, surfing the net and finding something so very similar to something <strong>I'd thought of independently</strong> was defeating. I felt I had to apologise to people as if I were a fraud. In this case the internet, which can be so good at creating a global community of like-minded souls, merely served to tell me that my idea was common, perhaps even banal in it's conception. It was deflating. Like a dead jellyfish on the beach.<br />
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So, does the internet inspire or influence negatively? Are there really any original ideas out there?<br />
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When I'm a wrasslin' with 'dem big questions I often turn to my husband who's a thinker and reader extraordinaire. He gave me 2 "great books" on the larger issues of imagination. And here they are. Next to them I have placed the t.v. channel remote. I am making a visual joke here.<br />
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I then asked him to precis the books into a couple of good lines for my blog. He didn't. So, you go read them. I'll send them to you. Let me know if they answer these weighty questions. I'm a Google-head now. If it's more than 3 lines long and buried anywhere after the first page on my search results then forget about it. I've got an episode of Downton abbey and some pizza waiting.<br />
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Oh, and one other thing if I still have your attention. I'm looking for models for a life drawing open studio. We especially need men. If they want to cover their bits that's okay with us. $60 per session.<br />
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So here I am, on this wintry day, toiling in my studio on product for the most odious of Hallmark occasions. Valentine's day.</div>
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It's not that I have anything against romance and hearts and flowers (I lie. It makes me uncomfortable). It's not the perfunctory, guilt-laden nature of the giving (after all, guilt is a useful protestant tool in life, and essential in relationships). It's the<em> colours</em>. And the heart thing. But mostly the colour coding. Red. Pink. Blech. Oh, and the fact that my wonderful dog, Clover, died on Valentine's Day last year.<br />
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I've made some really really big red and pink mistakes in my life. A pink and red themed bedroom when I was too old to really have one (14). I went to town on my furniture with cans of glossy pink spray enamel. Pink priscilla curtains. And as if that weren't an object lesson in DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN I went on, a few years back, to DO IT AGAIN in a 2 floor foyer and hallway. The colour had some uber-hip name like Nacre. But after 4 gallons and 3 days of painting it was more like Massacre. A bloody pink-red. The kind of colour that inspires one to violence.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Therefore, my message to you, Oh 8 loyal followers of my blog, is - well, not a message. It's a question. What primes your pump? What makes you create when you're just not really in the mood? For me, other than an oppressive deadline, it is beauty. I know, it's bourgeois and perhaps a bit corny but it's what makes me <em>make</em>. Make things.</span></div>
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This grey and snowy weekend is to be devoted to the re-visioning of a book I'd created a while back for a group show (Flotsam and Jetsam) at the Centre for Craft and Design in Sydney. The book is called Whale Mapping. It's a simple accordion fold-out binding featuring a collage of creepy other-worldly photos of a 20+ foot fin whale that washed up on a local beach a few years back.<br />
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Along with this book, the other lasting memory of this behemoth was a lingering odour of rancid whale blubber in our old Camry. The whale was literally melting from within, and each wave breaking around our legs would coat them with more molecules of liquid whale. We drove home with that souvenir on us and on our car seats. Even our dogs couldn't stand the smell of us.<br />
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There was a poignancy to this whale, and to all whales in fact, who wash up in such public places. They live their lives in such privacy and concealment and yet end up on display - poked, prodded and hacked at by gawkers such as us. This became the theme of the book, and generated the text:<br />
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Just down the road we joined a gathering....pretty much the entire village, at the seawall. The community had gathered to show support and appear for a photograph for the Cape Breton Post about our rapidly decomposing sea wall. Time and tides and some pretty forceful gales have caused the seawall to collapse in sections. This seawall is the only thing that protects our tiny sea level village from a vast and unpredictable ocean. When it goes, so shall we. Therefore, the battle has begun in earnest to get the attention of the powers that be. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And on that note I'm off to have my champagne. It's New Year's! Happy Happy!</span>littlepinkhousestudiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316627024865350036noreply@blogger.com0