My art focus last week was on my big commission piece. For a huge landscape piece with lots of
trees I needed to make a mountain of leaf clumps for the tree canopy. I now have enough to fill a salad bowl!
I have been making branches to house the leaf clumps - I've made several to get me started and today I'll start attaching them to their trunks. I never know how many I will need until I see them attached. Creating the giant trees is
becoming less of a design and more of a discovery project,
which means I’m readily distracted.
Squirrel! There!
Actually, what happened was I stopped
in at a local business to ask whether she would be interested in carrying my
sweater petals. She hummed and
hawed and asked if I had anything new.
Of course I do, I just haven’t invented it yet! I’m still going to make sweater petals
this year, since this is only the second year I’ve made them and I’m still
developing ideas for the pieces.
In other words, I haven’t burned out on making them yet. Along those same lines, this will
likely be my last year to make scarves…
I had been thinking about
kids, and puppets came to mind, so I created Swuppets! They are puppets made out of upcycled
wool sweaters. The creatures are whimsical,
silly monsters. The boys helped me
sketch out some ideas for faces that appealed to them, and I’m having a great
time making them.
My life is never as simple as art projects, and this week
was no different. I wrote a grant
for the CVB (Convention and Visitors Bureau) to support advertising for the
Fourth Street Art Festival. Over
the past few years we’ve used the monies to support advertising buys in markets
well beyond Bloomington. Our goal
is to attract art patrons from markets such as Cincinnati and north of Indy where
the drive isn’t excessive, but where people might choose to spend a night in
town. All the stress of gathering
data and writing the grant might be one of the reasons I needed to create the
Swuppets when I did! On Friday
night my boys passed their red belt test in Taekwondo. I’m very proud of them all. They’re talented and cute as bug’s
ears. I continued on my baking
binge by making a yeast-raised apple bread and cranberry-orange chocolate chip
muffins. Fall is soup time, so I
made Three Sisters soup. The three
sisters are white beans, corn and butternut squash. The recipe came from a Bloomingfood’s flyer a couple of
years ago and has been a staple for winter dinners. This week I’ll make corn-squash chowder. Oh, and I wanted to mention that in my
travels I dropped off my sweater petals to the new Hidden Closet location,
which is now on Kirkwood across from the Buskirk-Chumley theater. Brynda Forgas is the owner, and now she
has a huge space compared to the tiny shop she had in Fountain Square
Mall. I’m delighted for her and
wish her well in her new home.
Until next week…
Martina Celerin
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