Pop over to my Binky blog to see the 'card' I made for Molly and Ben!
B and I made a 'no presents' rule this year, especially as far as the kids are concerned. We told them to hang on to their hard-earned cash, and instead we would just exchange hand-make cards - even if it was a photo sent by email with some writing on it, anything to save them spending money in these hard times. This is the card I made for Mr. T. The simple frame is from George at Asda (unbelievably costing the same to buy as an average single Christmas card). I removed the glass and used the frame as a substrate for the card. The 'sky' is made from some insulation packaging material studded with tiny resistors (Mr. T is an electrician), the droplets are from an old chandelier I stripped down a few years ago and the snow and clouds are Dacron appropriated from the waste bin at work. An umbel I had used for printmaking, some foil snowflakes left over from previous Christmas projects and some of B's natural linen he uses for his paintings make the foreground of the landscape, and the little 'books' stuck to the bottom of the frame are cut up pieces of piping from chairs we regularly strip at work.
Pop over to my Binky blog to see the 'card' I made for Molly and Ben! From birthday cards onto Christmas cards - the dining table still in workshop mode. I know I'm not going to get them posted in time for Christmas - Asda has run out of 2nd class stamps, it's too costly to send them all 1st class, I already used the ones I had posting to Europe and a birthday card. I'll have to be better organised next year!
It seems a funny time of year to be making birthday cards when I really should be getting on with Christmas cards, but we have a lot of friends with birthdays coming up soon. This is a big sheet of Fabriano Rosaspina decorated with wax resist, ink and homemade rubber stamps. Trimmed down and mounted on cards, each becomes a miniature painting ready to send out as birthday greetings. See more I made on my Binky blog.
This week one of my Dictionary.com's subscription mails was about angel numbers. I am neutral on that subject, but find the idea that the universe may be sending personal messages in repeated numerical form which can help us navigate our personal lives interesting. Being numerically synesthetic, colours being the only value I associate with numbers, I find them problematic. Even simple addition or subtraction (even on a calculator) present such kaleidoscopes of confetti (forget long division, it makes me want to pass out) that the whole reason for trying to do the math in the first place just evaporates. Letters and texts, however, I have no problems with. So, perhaps forms I see repeatedly which suggest script could be my 'angel alphabets'? - it appears to me there is no reason numbers alone have to be transmissions from the other side. If my angels know me, they won't bother with numbers, but lettering and text I can deal with any day. The first image at the top, which somewhat resembles Sephardic script, is a line of laundry reflected in the barbecue lid; the one above is a log burning on the fire, also a bit Sephardic looking - perhaps carved in weathered sandstone, or to be found on a wind-eroded mountain-side. And below is my favourite social media post on the subject ... Hahaha, well said!
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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