I am not a one-trick pony. I can do three of them now: Wine bottle vases, clay tiles, and now, creating a picture collage. Granted, R said, “What is it?” and I replied, “What do you see?” He is a little concrete when it comes to certain things.
A ruler. What’s the wire for? Where did you get that wood?
That led to an explanation of what I had done and why. It is not rocket science, nor rocket art for that matter. Although sometimes I just make stuff up in my head, generally, it is inspired by something I have seen, albeit I tend to adapt because I am just not that skilled to recreate the Masters. This process led to my showing him the piece I had seen on Pinterest, and the process of adapting. Let’s just say it included these two parts of the explanation:
“I like the colored birds better. Do you want some more of those plaques? I have a stack of them I brought home from my office.”
Sure…I will make one for you with the colored birds.
“But what’s the wire for?”
Anyone want to weigh in on the purpose of the wire? I’m sure R will want your take on it!
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I’m stuck here (laughing): “He is a little concrete when it comes to certain things.” I’ll have to borrow that one sometime. I like the collage. where did you hang it?
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I actually intended to include that, and got sidetracked. I will add it above. It is on the wall by the door going out of my room, at least for now. 🙂
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The colored birds are nice, but the birds cut from newspaper seem a bit more resourceful. In any case, it’s a nice ensemble.
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Thank you, Betty. I cut the birds out of an old calendar to use as the pattern to draw the birds on the word print. I did a couple of those for my class once in a collage, and used an old dictionary for words we often used in teaching social work. I love words!
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Me, too!
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Comment #2: I’ll admit to studying your collage for clues. I feel like I will have an “AHA” moment once I figure out the meaning and relationship of all the items, including the wire. I started with “No. 505” and, of course, my mind wanders everywhere from the Etch-A-Sketch to the beard oil.
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You are hilarious!
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See there? And I don’t even have to try!
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It seems like a high wire, and I’m afraid of falling.
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Well, it is a wire high above the birds!
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The first thing I thought of was “Bird on a Wire” – a movie, I think. And for some reason the whole thing seemed familiar, like on a travel diary. Oh, well, I like it!
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Thank you–I am not sure it has a purpose of meaning. I just know what I thought when I saw it. I don’t think I ever saw Bird on a Wire, though I recall the name of the movie. Hmmm…travel diary. I like that connection, although I have not done much traveling of late, unless going to the grocery store counts…but it does not usually require a travel diary entry.
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I just remembered where I saw it! It was on a college that I had years ago. Think I gave it to Goodwill. We don’t travel much either! All I need is a grocery list.
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Cool–birds do travel a lot and you never know where they might end up!
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I LOVE it!!! When I first looked at it, I thought, ‘the wire doesn’t need a purpose” it’s just art details. But, then when I looked at it again, it resembles a window frame, like I’m looking out a window and seeing birds outside. Pretty cool.
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I tried to answer this last night, but Internet +@#! was open and I couldn’t. Of course the wire doesn’t “Need” a purpose–just art details is sufficient, but we do interpret art in different ways of course. I think it is fun it is like a frame that you are looking out of–that is an appealing vision.
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You’re very good at art- feels like you follow your instincts. You make some beautiful stuff.
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Thanks, Jessica!
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I love the newspaper birds. And, of course, the wire is for the birds to land on.
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Woo hoo! There is a keeper! Thank you, Linda.
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