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Well, I've done it!! This is the single biggest body of work I have done on the same theme or theory as the case would be here! Thankyou all so much for your warm fuzzies and intellegent, funny and inspiring comments. I have learnt a lot about my collages, myself and about you all. I need to flatten these and get them in the post tomorrow so I'm just going to fly under the wire on these ones!
I've enjoyed working through the various aspects of this series, the collages exploring nests working well arn't as numerous as those that highlight a need or an injustice but I don't mean to imply that the world is just a horrible and nuture-less place. It's not. There a beautiful places and beautiful people. There's also a very fine line between the good and the bad. I have created more questions for myself than answers in some ways with this series. I don't get why there's so much injustice, why all nests arn't made equal, why the world is the way it is. But then again I never set out the answer those questions, the most important thing that each of us can do is ensure that our part of the nests are strong. That we build nests that are places of nuture, love, security and hope and that we raise birds who don't just fly but soar.
I wish you and yours well on this journey and thankyou for sharing in mine:)
Number 3 in my series on the 'society is a nest' thinkings.
I was really taken by the image of this woman walking in her dirty, decaying surroundings. This is her nest.
This is not to suggest that her nest will raise damaged birds, that would be a terrible assumption. I am more making an comment on the fact that our societies don't always make very good nests, they don't always provide environments that are places of nuture, comfort, safety and love.
There seems to be an unequal distribution of good nests for children to grow up in. I don't think the rich nessecarily have better nests. That would also be a terrible assumption. I think they are better decorated but not nessecarily better made.
The cross bears the words " Non Identificado" and is a memorial for an unidentified person who tried to flee his nest, in search of a better one across the border but died at the fence put up by border officials to keep him there.
It raises a lot of questions for me... I hope that he found his nest, that place of nuture, peace and happiness he was looking for.
It's not all doom and gloom...I know some nests work well. It just really gets to me that all nests aren't made equal. That some fail and some fall. I hope your nest is your place of safety, comfort and love. My best wishes to you all! Lisa :)
This is nearly finished...at the moment the beads spell complete gibberish because I am too tired to think of anything profound and clever to write.They are just there now so I can visualise it with words!
This is the 1st of the 13 collages I need to do for the international collage exchange. Technically it's the 3rd but I have decided not to enter the first 2 I made. I looked at them and thought they were lovely collages but not very good representations of me! (You can see them by selecting the international collage exchange link on the sidebar.) This one is much better. When she saw this my eldest said to me "Mum your art is different. You're a bit different but I like that about you!" Isn't she sweet?? A backward compliment genuinely said :)
I don't know what to title this piece...When I was creating I was thinking about my theory that society is our nest, a place of well being, comfort and security when it's woven well and working right and how sometimes that nest fails. Birds (children) arn't protected and they grow up damaged, the nest is tainted and broken and the eggs arn't nutured...(how's that for a complicated glimpse inside my head? lol)
I have made lots of comparrisons in this collage...the birds perched on the tree, the old men perched on a bench seat, the nest of eggs and the row of babies lined up...there's more ofcourse but I am sure your can see them! I was thrilled to find the image of the bird man! (You may need to beam him up to see it here though...)
I'm at loss for words for once ...the profound and clever, maybe even controversial words needed fot this....It's right on the tip of my tounge...as soon as I think of what it needs written here I will arrange the beads into words and not gibberish....no doubt one of those thoughts that will either keep me awake or wake me up in the little hours! Can you see the smoke yet? lol
OPPS! Just seen my pic has dissapeared! Technology! - will see if I can figure out how to get it back onto my post with out it going to the top of all the other posts! Apologies for the big tease ;)
This is collage 1/14 for the International Collage Exchange 2008 and my theme is 'Fourteen famous Tuesdays'
This one is Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras as it is known these days!
The origins of this day are faaaaaaarrr away from what we see today. Originaly waaaay back when Noah was young :) it was a day of feasting and indulgence, dancing and music. Calves were often fattened for the occasion which was held the day before Ash Wednesday and the week of Lent. It was a last chance to indulge oneself and use up supplies of things like eggs, butter and milk before a week of fasting and prayer. The word Mardi Gras is French and litteraly translates to Fat Tuesday. Some countries also had 'Pancake Tuesday" as pancakes were a good way to use the eggs and milk!
I am especially pleased with the calf I made from painted paper scrap, it was inspired by the collages that Eric Carl ? Does in the "hungry catterpillar' books and it is a technique I would use again. I love collage but struggle with using images that arn't my own...I feel much better when I have created them myself!
