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PURGE

Posted: June 24, 2023 in Art
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I feel I need to purge toxic balls of words that come at me now and then. I delete those words a lot, but they come at me again and again. So, I am taking those words, and adding my own in All CAPS AND BOLD. Right Here, Right Now. I feel it may help me purge the word cancer that lives inside me.

The written word sent quickly.

Filled with emotion.

So easy to slap down words with your thumbs, or index finger like I do.

Some bring joy, laughter, love

Some don’t.

We played Nice But What Was Under the Surface? (Painting by Cecily Brown)

I’m placing these photographs to hopefully convey beautiful chaos, lovely negativity, awesome anger, and general all around pretty pettiness that happens in life. Although the photos are my own, they may be of other people’s work.

What is below the layers?
(Store Logo)

Just last night I plunged backward into the sea 7 times to help remove negativity. But yet, negativity keeps on coming. Last night I figured it out, you cannot plunge negativity away, but you may be able to purge it.

I wrote the words. They are out.
Different Pieces together Make a Whole (Street art mural San Juan, PR)
I turned my words into art, Word Art.
And if only we could all accept. (Art in an exhibit at the PR Contemporary Art Museum)
For you to see, but for me only to know. It’s my own rainbow to bare.
So many layers.
So many Complications
It Runs Deep (Toxic pollution in a sidewalk crack)
Let it blur so much it becomes invisible.
Not locking it up nor holding it inside anymore.

If I could throw up emotions, feelings, words, and even memories…I would be sticking a toothbrush down my throat right now. But I can’t, so this is my way of purging them all. I call it art. Some art isn’t pretty. Truth isn’t either.

Thank you for visiting my darker than normal Gnome Little World.

Art Imitates Life

Posted: June 1, 2023 in Art, Upcycle
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Webbed Map of Life
(Photo: In the works.)

I don’t have any photos of the beginning of this piece, but I can tell I did not have this end in mind. But, here is a video of the very start.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTREYCYHm/

After I decided to use an old map to tear up, I was thinking of amap of life. Then when I was doing the needlepoint it looked like Morse code, so I decided to sew in words that have to do with living life. I finished the 5 Strips and there it sat for a couple of months. I was in a rut, I didn’t create.

(Photo: What word do you see?)

While we were packing for the move, I packed in the strips along with some supplies. Then we moved and then I was so moved to create again.

(Photo: We make ties to people to places and even to things.)

I needed something for structure and to represent the steady stuff, the structure of our lives. Wood was the strength needed and pink was the perfect amount of innocence and love.

(Photo: Upcycled Art of Life)

I used floss because it has 6 threads that brings it together to be. No one stands on their own.

Ok, and I had plenty of it.

(Photo: We are all interconnected.)

The art piece told me what to do with the hanging floss as soon as I held it up. All the hanging floss had to be connected to each other. Some webs may look chaotic, but there is a method in the madness. Life looks a mess, but maybe that is as it should be.

(Photo: It’s a delicate piece…Just like Life.)

Thank you for visiting My Gnome Little World.

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