Friday, January 20, 2017

paper

first, today's the day.
LOVE TRUMPS HATE
we made the huffington post!
~and~
this table 
full of fiber
transformed (with a lot of labor) into paper.
it's my winter paper intensive




top row: 
hosta (green) 
on cotton rag (my pants), 
linen rag (my sweetie's canvas leftovers), 
canada thistle down, 
milkweed from my meadow, 
and butterfly weed (from gin)
bottom row: 
hosta from home, 
white linen rag from a tablecloth, 
blue and gray recycled st. armond off cuts from caliban press, 
big stack of raw flax, 
wild, late-gathered milkweed from home.
hidden away is abaca 
recycled off cuts from home, st lawrence and caliban.
and
a little bit of dyeing.
feeling like i've accomplished something!
(with special thanks to Zone 4)

14 comments:

  1. supreme, abundant gorgeousness, velma !!!

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  2. amazing variety of paper, do you have plans for it? loved the huffington post article.

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  3. I'm simply in awe. So much beauty and hard work.

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  4. Wow, amazing paper, looking forward to seeing what you are doing with it.

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  5. jean, yes, plans, but more, following though from idea to thing is something i now have enough time for.
    kaija, yes! that's it exactly, they are beautiful and there was a lot of hard work. but it was very good work!
    debbie, now i can make some editions, perhaps, and a few seed ideas might get to grow.

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  6. Hi V - well done you guys on the great marches - the turn out looks amazing - hope that some of the messages might get through to the Trump camp. The stash of paper just looks incredible - what a heap of work - but you must feel great about the outcome. Go well. B

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  7. barry, thanks for both things. after the despair of the pre and post election, it feel good to make things and stand together.
    mo, there's a bit of work there.
    neki, aw...

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  8. What an amazing array of flags and of paper - love and kindness will triumph; and oh my, paper like that just makes you want to get in and play! Enjoy the fruits of your labour.

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  9. fiona,yes, a lot of positive stuff to counteract the horror in washington.

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  10. Thanks for prayer flags update, Velma, well done! Posted it on my fb friends page here. Lovely other sheets, too.

    Jennifer Weissel (IAPMA m-at-large, Australia)

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  11. jennifer, very very cool. thanks, but they are cloth, not paper (if that matters) though many of the artists were book/paper folks.

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