Look at this wind! He is a playful giant and blows these leaves like they are his little toys. Do they trust him? Or are they just naive?
Filmed outside my dorm in Vermont.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Gift Wrap Revolution
Conventional gift wrapping?? PSH. I have lashed out against the perfection of department store gift wrapping! Time for some fun!
..Perhaps people refrain from artistically embracing gift wrapping because it will be ripped apart! (And what a pity to see that happen to one's art work.)
...But what in this world is not fleeting, anyhow?
ART'S DEMISE IS PART OF ITS BEAUTY
...Particularly when transformed into a silly hat.
..Perhaps people refrain from artistically embracing gift wrapping because it will be ripped apart! (And what a pity to see that happen to one's art work.)
...But what in this world is not fleeting, anyhow?
ART'S DEMISE IS PART OF ITS BEAUTY
...Particularly when transformed into a silly hat.
Paper Sculpture!
Woa! A new medium! It started out as a Christmas card for my father made from this awesome, thick watercolor paper-- then I cut, folded, painted, sewed, and hey, look what happened!
Compost Magic
So what ever happened to my compost pile?? Well, lemme tell you!
My compost did in fact go to a practical use other than being so beautiful and vibrant in the white snow last winter. In the spring, I got all sweaty and stinky planting a bed of fluttery white and purple pansies with my home made fertilizer. I could see bits of orange peels and noodles from my most recent additions to the compost pile, which added a nice colorful flair to my pansy bed. I kept watering the pansies throughout the spring, and then strangely, the pansies began to die prematurely-- they got all wilty only a few weeks after I planted them! They had turned into a patch of limp dried up stems.
...What was this!?
After a few weeks of ignoring this failure of a pansy plot, I noticed one day after school, a MONSTROUS five foot fuzzy stem spilling out of the flower barrel. It was a squash! I was quite shocked,-- how on earth did that end up there?? Why, the compost of course! I must have composted some squash at some point-- and the seeds must not have decomposed before I used the compost to fertilize the pansies. I'm not really sure why the squash would have killed the pansies-- perhaps its roots were taking up all the space in the barrel...? Who knows? Oh, nature, you enigma you!
I am sad I did not photographically capture this remarkable, mysterious event. I like the idea that I inadvertently caused this squash to grow-- I thought the process would be so simple and logical, yet something was happening completely out of my control, beneath what was visible. I had underestimated the power of chance and possibility.
My compost did in fact go to a practical use other than being so beautiful and vibrant in the white snow last winter. In the spring, I got all sweaty and stinky planting a bed of fluttery white and purple pansies with my home made fertilizer. I could see bits of orange peels and noodles from my most recent additions to the compost pile, which added a nice colorful flair to my pansy bed. I kept watering the pansies throughout the spring, and then strangely, the pansies began to die prematurely-- they got all wilty only a few weeks after I planted them! They had turned into a patch of limp dried up stems.
...What was this!?
After a few weeks of ignoring this failure of a pansy plot, I noticed one day after school, a MONSTROUS five foot fuzzy stem spilling out of the flower barrel. It was a squash! I was quite shocked,-- how on earth did that end up there?? Why, the compost of course! I must have composted some squash at some point-- and the seeds must not have decomposed before I used the compost to fertilize the pansies. I'm not really sure why the squash would have killed the pansies-- perhaps its roots were taking up all the space in the barrel...? Who knows? Oh, nature, you enigma you!
I am sad I did not photographically capture this remarkable, mysterious event. I like the idea that I inadvertently caused this squash to grow-- I thought the process would be so simple and logical, yet something was happening completely out of my control, beneath what was visible. I had underestimated the power of chance and possibility.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Food Art!
SO! I've been terrible about updating this thing, but here are some shots of recent projects that have taken place this year. My most major-- composting! I didn't expect to become that passionate about it, yet there I was, every weekend watering and tossing and adding to my delightful stinky heap of leftovers. Speaking of leftovers-- I included a shot of a work rendered from the remaining RAO's on my plate after dinner.
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