Jem's post in Under the Skin

I have been long lost from this blog but here I am...smiling!

This book is seriously fucking awesome. I'm sad to have to send it off as I really want to keep looking and petting. I think I'm going to have to remake my entry just to have on my wall, is it bad to admit I love it that much? Will working on it I kept thinking of the video Jeane shared of the street art event near her...check it out or enjoy for a second time...http://www.nuartfestival.no/home/the-world-s-largest-outdoor-mural---video

Y''all feel me?!

SELFMADE ON.....

So, first to admit that I am a bad person. I have had this book since mid-August. Previously in 2008, I was walking around one time in Tetouan, Morocco, and I found this mysterious, beautiful old folder-up paper. It was dusty, sunny and warm, lots of cars and trucks driving too fast right next to me and all. I opened it up, and it appeared to be some kind of strange diagram of different colored lines. Strangely, I was walking down a semi-questionable road: was it a highway? Was it a road? Should I really be walking there? No one commented, so I just kept walking, when all of a sudden, I found these interesting papers. I kept them for years, and I can't really say why I kept them all this time until now. 

I have just crawled out from under a vortex, and I know y'all feel me?! One second, you're going along just fine, and then the next thing you know, BAM, you wake up.

where am I?

WTF? What happened? I went to school, and realized I was in deep and had no way to dig myself out except through hours spend over lates nights of reviewing materials and trying to figure out something kinda fun and interesting to do with your students. 

so what's going on?

In any event, this was fun to work on. I just was like, BAM, let's do this!

let's try later

Oh wait, I guess I can work on it next weekend......................

Jeanne's book - Angela's entry

Terrible confession: I've had the tchotchkes book since June. Eeeps! 

(I'll spare you details of family and work drama/trauma). But at least Jeane knows that her bambina is alive and well. :) VERY well, in fact, cuz the entries are all fab - a REALLY fantastic range of approaches. Yay for mixed media!

My contribution was lamely straightforward: I found some tchotchkes, threw out the ones that "didn't fit" my color scheme or general fancy, and made a composition. I worked on it at my aunt's house, with only superglue as an adhesive, so hopefully all the metal bits don't fall off.  :D

Hope you all are doing super.

Happy Fall Timez, y'all.

Mary's Book (Is it?) / Petr's Entry

I guess it wouldn't be my entry if it there was no gore to it.

Water colour, ink, spray paint.

This chamber is inspired by an old illustration of a Blue Beard folktale.

Lisa's Book / Petr's Entry

Looking at the blog entries documenting the progress of your "book", Lisa, gave me a little insight of what's coming. The collection of entries in the mini book / mini card format is simply stunning! All the additions are startlingly beautiful, so diverse, so fun, so full of life.

I didn't do a lot of my typical/usual ink drawing lately and so I used this opportunity to get back to it.

However, having pyromaniac inclinations I was also very tempted to play with fire and with leaving fire marks on paper. I used sparklers on their own and in combo with flammable material spread on a paper - specifically scraped tops of matches and red phosphorus (burns like crazy). Results are stuck on an under-layer of bright neon spray paint making for a back side of this mini book.