{"id":68,"date":"2012-01-19T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T02:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-01-19T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T02:40:55","slug":"might-come-in-handy-some-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Might Come In Handy Some Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been accused of being a pack rat. Sure there is a tad of truth to that description. But I should think that most mixed media artists know\u2013collected materials for use \u201csome day\u201d could mean exactly that. <\/p>\n

Many of the pieces that I had in a show last year had materials I saved for several years. For example, the pit fired cup was a demo piece from a teaching gig over 10 years ago. The metal bits I snagged when my brother-in-law was clearing out his warehouse of construction materials. <\/p>\n

\"At<\/p>\n

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I wanted this cup to appear more goblet-like so I drilled a hole through the bottom to attach a carriage bolt for a stem. The stem has two types of washers that are filling in for the dots and dashes of Morse Code. <\/p>\n

The stem has the word \u201cmourning\u201d in code. It is a play on the homophone \u201cmorning\u201d as in morning cup of tea. The small bag inside the cup has poison plant bits\u2013not material appropriate for a tea ceremony.<\/p>\n

\"Mourning<\/p>\n

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\nThe wood for the sides of the next piece came from an old swing that I rescued from my parents\u2019 burn pile. That was more years ago than I care to remember. The bronze bit on the rosary is a piece of a dried fig that was spin cast in the late 80s. I couldn\u2019t find a home for it until this piece was made. The rosary has \u201cCleanse Your Palate\u201d and \u201cForgive Yourself\u201d in code.<\/p>\n

The thing that was most fun about constructing this piece was how the cast soap cup came into existence. I made a slew of woven and fiber cups that I meant to cast in bronze. I never managed to get them gated and cast so they were stored away. When I ran across them I realized that I really didn\u2019t want to cast them any longer. So, I made silicone molds for casting soap and sugar pieces.<\/p>\n

\"Forgive<\/p>\n

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\nRarely do I first glimpse a material or object and know precisely how I will use it. Often materials make it known where they would like to live and with whom.<\/p>\n

When I was sorting out the stuff in Dad\u2019s barn, I collected materials to ship home. This is some of what I collected.<\/p>\n

\"Metal<\/p>\n

The metal drawers have been nicely oxidized from mice living in them.<\/p>\n

\"Metal<\/p>\n

So many possibilities\u2026<\/p>\n

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I have been accused of being a pack rat. Sure there is a tad of truth to that description. But I should think that most mixed media artists know\u2013collected materials for use \u201csome day\u201d could mean exactly that. Many of the pieces that I had in a show last year had materials I saved for … Continue reading Might Come In Handy Some Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-processes","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}