I am now selling my art in a cool concept decor & clothing store in the Condado neighborhood in San Juan Puerto Rico!
If you are in the area, it is called Nifty Cure and it’s on Avenida Ashford near Calle Cervantes!
Squeee! Happiness! Joy!
Now I wait for more of that when one sells! I am manifesting it.
I have to say I think I need to suggest to them how to display my art…most of it needs to be on a wall.
I go back today to bring vintage stuff, some clothing for consignment as well as these cuties I just made!
I can sell from anywhere, so message me if you are interested. My pieces are one of a kind, but I can try to get as close as I can if that is what you want!
I just learned that word. Trash and fashion=Art? Another phrase for it is Junk Art. Whatever you want to call it, it is art made from what most people would call garbage.
A lot of my art is made with stuff I found for free or thrifted or gifted….but some of the stuff for these projects are downright trashy garbage. The worst of all worse garbage, plastics found on a beach where I wish all Sea Plastics went to die.
(PHOTO: One particular bad plastic garbage day at what I now call “Plastics Beach”.
Last month my hub and I went for a drive and without our knowledge we ended up on what may be the most sea garbage filled beach on the island. It’s in a corner of a bay and the wind and tide seem to go straight to the particular area of the beach. I was overwhelmed with the amount of it all. I didn’t just see garbage. I saw color and I saw childhood laughter. And even though I didn’t know it at the time, I saw potential. That place never left my mind, so much so, we we went back. This time, I was prepared mentally and with reusable shopping bags.
(PHOTO: My sweet husband collecting plastics and beachcombing)
This time to “Plastics Beach” it wasn’t as bad, by “not as bad”, I mean there was less bigger pieces. It was still very bad. I focused on collecting the most colorful plastics. While I was on the hunt, I noticed some big black bags at the edge of the beach in the trees. I assumed they were filled with the beach garbage. This made me feel good, but I also wondered what colorful fun things could I find inside them. Don’t worry, I did not open them. They are destined for the dump for the rest of their long plastic life.
(PHOTO: This is what we brought home in our 4 large reusable shopping bags)
I cleaned every single piece, a lot to be cleaned again. While doing this, I thought of the price of art, even art made from free stuff. It took hours to do the initial clean. I can use old, scratched, marked, broken things for art, but I can’t use dirty stuff with sand embeddeded in it with the potential to smell over time. A lot of this time consuming. Even though, I’m not big on selling my art, I support artists that do and their prices. Oh, I will sell my art, just ask me. Anyway, I recently picked an old frame out of the trash area of my apartment building. Do you see the trashy thing going here? And here is me playing with my idea of art.
(PHOTO: The first juxtaposition of pieces inside of the frame.)(PHOTO: I almost love this view of the piece better)
I really like it. I go through many processes with my pieces. Here is where I was before creating the one above (mind you it is not done…the things are in a box now), I recently went on a trip to where I got things for cheap or were gifted them. Fun, bright, cheerful things, including beads, miniature stuff, and vintage cabochons, but not limited to that. Here is where I went with those items when I got home.
(PHOTO: I put all the stuffy things together, added items I had already and this is what I got.) (PHOTO: I love the neon and brightness of this piece and I will make smaller versions of it when I can thrift some fun frames.)
If you haven’t seen my art, besides using upcycled materials, I love texture for the eyes and hands. I love surprises to be found. I love that I see art when others see magazines, belts, twine, and garbage. I love that I can see how to use things in unconventional ways, like beads not beaded, a belt buckled around a canvas, old rough twine in macrame, and torn maps not used for directions.
(PHOTO: My art in my home)
Here are other versions of pieces I may do with my plastic beach finds….
(PHOTO: I love the idea of one or two bold colors. So, yes, I love this small 5×7 piece, but if I do it I will paint the frame a brighter blue.) (PHOTO: So, I love anything round, circular, spherical, and globular including balls, orbs, globes sport supplies, decor, plastic caps and so on. This piece is a mixture of all found or saved round things. Honestly, I’m notot as fond of this piece.)
Since I’m on this maximalism, lots of stuff in one piece journey, yesterday I was playing more with some of the beads and cabochons I got at General Bead in SF recently (and vintage plastics from a friend there too). Also, I recently have been enamored with miniatures, and bought some while traveling and at a store near my apartment. Yes, new stuff. Ack, but give me a break, they are so cute. Look!
(PHOTO: I Call this “Bunny Bubbles #Yellow) (PHOTO: See the Adorable tiny Bunny? It is actually what is called an “Nail Ornament)(PHOTO: I call this “Bear Bubbles #Purple.) (Sorry for the bad photo.)(PHOTO: But look at the bears…this time 2 sizes!) (Squeeee!)
Okay, before you go crazy making orders and wanting to buy…none of these are made yet! 😉
But I did just paint the large frame, and I am looking for a back to adhere items safely to it. Will update this post when I’m done!
Once again, Thanks for visiting… My Gnome Little World!!
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.
My Gnome Little World 