New Colors In My Life and Soul

Since coming home from the hospital, I've been overwhelmed with the need to incorporate new colors into my life-in my clothes, in my home, and into my art.  It's as if  I've been draped with a rainbow of colors within me. 

Seth Apter from The Altered Page  posted about the  The Butterfly Effect 

                                            

which immediately caught my eye and heart. It's a  Project  to honor the 1.5 million children who lost their lives in the holocaust by collecting 1.5 million hand made butterflies for display.  He indicated that Trudi Sissons from TwoDressesStudio  graciously volunteered to receive the butterflies from the blogging community and forward them to the Holocaust Museum in Houston Texas, the sponsors of the project  - scheduled to open in the spring of 2013. .  You can read more about the project in Trudi's blog  here. To date, 400,000 butterflies have been received by the museum.

Below is my butterfly contribution to the project. 

The butterfly is made of book board and measures 7.5" by 8". It's covered in multi-colors of tissue paper cut in squares placed overlapping one another. Squares were outlined using acrylic paint, colored sharpies and marking pens.

   It's a butterfly filled with more colors than I previously would have made. 

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In 2009, Alicia Caudle fr0m Altered Bits sponsored a Black and White display of artwork she selected for her wonderful E-Zine which you can see here. I created the following piece for it titled Lost and Found  on pages 38 and 39.

   Below is the same piece  with a little "color make over and some embellishments." Yes, it's time for more color in my life!

                       

                                                

Be all the colors that you feel. Take in their power, their amazing sense of energy and the change that they can make in you. 

Black and White: "Lost and Found" in Altered Bits- All the Time!

The amazing and talented Alicia, from Altered Bits has created a new eZine with the theme of Black and White. I was lucky enough to submit and have accepted my first work in this edition which you can see here. You can also see a preview copy of this super eZine in yudu.com here.

This is the cover of the Altered Bits Zine.

The request for submissions was for a black and white work, which could include all shades of gray in between, and could be an artwork in any type of artistic medium. I chose to create a mixed media piece, with the central theme involving time, synchronicity and butterflies to represent a free flowing energy that encircles me. With clock in my work is fixed at 11:11. My mom died on November 11, 2004, and ever since then, I see 11:11 all the time.

Within this work, which I've titled "Lost and Found", I've included a mah-jong chip and dice that were my mom's.

A central focus of my artwork includes the line "The Only Thing Black and White in Life are the Colors Black and White".

This represents my philosophy of living - with flexibilty, ability to change, freedom for self direction and to move from one idea to another, aways open to life's infinite possibilites.

Here is my finished work.

It measures 19" by 13" and is constructed of heavy watercolor paper matted on cardboard backing, acrylic paints, a piece of a folding antique ruler, sections of musical notes, clock hands, and a mirror box identifying the reflections we "see" in life - all open to interpretation. A tiny replica of a poetry journal was made from the metal component of an old floppy disk.

There's so much poetry in me

Just working to unlock my energy.

I feel the hold of a magical magnetic electricity

Living, breathing, touching, seeing

It's synchronicity

It's true alchemy.

Live like you mean it-

Believe that you have wings that will take you where ever you choose to go!