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This is FINALLY on its way to me!

 

I don't know yet if both sides of my page were used or only one--regardless i can't wait to actually see it!!! I've still been working on other pages for this journal, incorporating a lot of things along the way. Themed with Sci-Fi images, it celebrates my first passion when i was a child---reading and writing and illustrating futuristic poetry and stories. 

Today i will also be ripping and grommetting, burning and raw stitching and burning again, and slathering gesso and paint, stuffing figures and lacing things.  

Update on Tue, June 24, 2008 at 09:01AM by arlee

Grist!!! Scored a bunch of these from the Flower Mine-----we're given samples a lot of times by the giftware reps and i was given these. Not sure what type of pod/vegetable/fruit they are, but  i love the shapes. They are quite hard--took 10 minutes and a sweaty hacksaw to slice this one. Even the stem was sliceable so you KNOW it was a tough nut to crack!

 

 

The inside was quite dusty and i'm sure one curled up bit was a very dessicated grub, long corpsified and demised.

These will be embellished a bit then hard glued to a current canvas. 

Comments

[Susan]

Arlee, send me one of those and I'll wood burn something on it for you and send it back.

sus in spokane

[quiltpixie]

that cut open pod reminded me of an ob office with their 3D models of the uterus and feotus....

[Mary Anne]

Are you sure somebody hasn't been digging around in some mummy's tomb to find these?

[Carol WIebe]

These are very evocative for me: I would definitely add an image of this to a work of art, or, as you plan, to add the thing itself. Sounds like a line from a poem, Arlee:

And whether I add an image, or the thing itself, I will create something quite other. Because the thing itself is now dessicated, a dried husk, and the image always contains more of myself than the object I have attempted to replicate. Perhaps the "other," then, is simply another self portrait. One, in a long series, of my attempts to remake myself.

[chloe]

Hi there
I was browsing around and came across you blog, it has some amzing work on it.
Just thought you would like to know that your strange and wonderful seed pods comes from a baobab tree indigenous to Africa. It has a very large trunk,with short stubby brances
The seeds are covered in a dusty white/cream power, and are edible.
that is the dust is.
if you suck the seed it has a faintly acidy taste and was once the source of cream a tartar which is used in baking.
How ever do be careful as I have no idea how hold the pods you have are.
Hope this useless piece of info might inspire an african type piece of work!!
take care ..