Collage in progress: the little prince
You know about The Little Prince, right? (Not that one. This one.)
Credit: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (U.S. public domain, copyrighted in France until 2045)
I'm working on a collage homage to the little prince, so to speak. This summer, I noticed NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing by uploading photos from all the missions to Flickr. I'm now remixing a few of those images with my family photos, on watercolor paper.
The book's watercolor illustrations pulled me into that other universe so long ago I don't even remember the first time I saw them. But even as a kid, I understood the themes of alienation and connection perfectly. Not that I could have told you this back then, but I knew alienation isn't just loneliness, or even being alone by choice.
Museum of the Little Prince, Hakone, Japan. Credit: arieM1FLERéunion/ Wikimedia Commons
It's also about the parallel experience of not quite living in the same reality as the person next to you. Even when the other person is your friend, that connection is always tenuous and changing. You might remember I also explored those ideas in my most recently completed piece. So as I continue to work on the Great Mystery Project, I find that head space melancholy but also full of potential and anticipation. More to come.
(And if you haven't read The Little Prince, what are you waiting for? It's less than 100 pages. I know -- I've read it in both French and English.)
Seems all I do is wait
I have elements prepped for the collages I'm planning. Even got a little help from my studio assistant the other day.
Got an idea for another pair of collages too, as I was cleaning up after breakfast.
But I'm still waiting for a break in the action to put the collage elements together. That time seems so elusive from this viewpoint.
Sigh... cross your fingers for me that the kids will sleep late on the weekend and that they'll spend all their waking moments playing outside. Might get some more work and thinking done then.
Happy birthday, little website!
The Husband just pointed out to me that my lil' website is now a toddler. It's my two-year anniversary on lisamb.com!
These last two years have been eventful, to say the least. I nearly broke my brain with all the stuff I learned in Artist Trust's EDGE Professional Development program for visual artists.
Turns out it was just a sprain. Since then I've shared innumerable work-in-progress photos and videos...
I've celebrated here when I convinced people to give me money in exchange for my art...
"Best of the Northwest" art festival, fall 2015
and this year some generous folks gave me a big hand in sustaining my career as an artist who parents small children.
So now we're here: I'd like to invite you to the opening reception for my latest show, "HEX and the Monstrous Feminine"!
Please join me at Twilight Gallery on October 13th: we'll celebrate feminine fire plus my little digital birthday!