Everything is now

Things that have been occupying my headspace lately:

I don't mean to seem like I care about material things

Like a social status

I just want four walls and adobe slats

For my girls

Strawberry cupcakes, strawberry butter cream. I dipped one in chocolate at work (I work in an ice cream/coffee place and we dip waffle cones in chocolate and roll them in sprinkles. I used our dipping chocolate.)

These cupcakes were the most magical things ever. The liners, when peeled away, looked like stained glass. I want to bake these again and save all the cupcake liners to dip in resin. I don't really know what I'll do from there but I want to make art out of them. They were too fantastic not to be used. 

Seriously awesome cupcake liner!

Strawberry cupcakes baked in wafer cones. The pink icing is strawberry butter cream and the blue is vanilla. The strawberry butter cream  was much more awesome than the vanilla. Vanilla is just too... Vanilla.

three

draw

from the top.

the plot so far.

this is my progress between last tuesday and thursday afternoon (before the crit.) 12 pieces in what amounts to about 2 days of work. not bad. these will grow over the next few weeks, but progress is going to be slower. i'm going to be dividing my time between sewing and sculpting and casting. there are going to be multiple incarnations of these stones and cairns. i think of the stones as individuals and the cairns as whole pieces.

i'm going to be building some stones out of plaster and maybe stuffing and nylon. i'm not sure what's going to make the best base. maybe even clay. whatever will cost less. probably the nylon and stuffing and plaster. i'll have to ask wendy or john mack if i can use the school's plaster. i might need my own. maybe i can be sneaky? when i'm done building enough stones i'm going to start making molds from them and casting resin stones filled with layers of clothing, glitter, potato chips, various japanese paraphenalia i own. the list goes on and on. i don't think i'll stall out this time. i can't really fail with these things. i can make mistakes, but i can't just completely fail.

it's so amazingly freeing to have an idea that you feel is solid. i know that i'm going in the right direction.