catching up

yes, i have been very quiet. so much to organise with the builders and the design of my studio.... and lots of personal stuff too. my fav uncle is dying and i am trying to spend a lot of good time with him and his wife before he goes.
also my PTSD has been triggered in a major way some time ago and it tends to slowly seep into my ADHD brain-wiring, pushing me under my own private bell jar where no one can get at me. (or reach out to me)
all the while i wanted to post on the blog, because there was/is so much i have to say, so many ideas emerging in response to your work and words, but i just couldn't get rid of that glass dome covering me 24/7.

anyway, things are getting better now so it's time to do some catching up.

first of all: hurray for your idea to go 3D. i really think it is what you're about, almost saw it coming. starting with the way you cut up some of your older work and used it to create new, mostly abstract images. i love the way you are re-cycling, picking out some of the essence of the older work, the shapes and colors that attract you, and letting them lead you on to a whole new path.
i think that when i once told you your work has a kind of constrained abundance, i somehow understood that it needed to break out of those frames you put them in. ha, now you are truly going to let your creations loose on the world....lol!

the whole 3D concept also resonates with some of my own creative endeavors in the past. i have always been fascinated by paper art, especially pop-ups. some years ago i started to try out different techniques with my photographs, wanted to create stuff like Helen Friel or Colette Fu, who is also a photographer. and recently, while looking for more pop up art, i discovered Kelli Anderson, whose incredible pop-up book will soon be published..... wow!
i still have all the technique-books and the equipment, so when i have bought my new printer i might give it another try....

but there are so many other ways to break out of the 2D prison, when i saw the three works in one of your previous posts i immediately saw so many possibilities....

i can imagine fishes in the sea as a big beach towel, or as a carpet on a wooden floor.....

and the eggplant garden would be beautiful as a wallpaper, or even better as a curtain..... can you see it too? 

then there is the abstract floral arrangement

i would love to see this printed on silk, then folded vertically down the middle and turned into a cover for a big pillow/cushion resting on a very expensive design couch.... each side having a similar but different look.

also i have been thinking a lot about your 'it's a wrap' project, trying to figure out how you can create lights out of the wrapped paper. and you won't believe it but i discovered a possible answer while i totally wasn't looking for it..... went to ikea to buy curtains for my new studio and walked into this 'contraption'.....

it was like an epiphany..... it is a fully customisable pendant lamp, with 6 separate paper 'layers' set in a bendable metal frame with a hole in it to put the cord through and you can crumple and shape each layer any way you like..... and it has a hard plastic transparent sheet to fix around the lightbulb so the paper doesn't get too hot......

i immediately bought one, wanted to send it to you by express mail, but thought better of it, because it is too fragile, and besides, they sell it in your own ikea.... 

and to top it all: just look at the price, it costs next to nothing! 

needless to say i was ecstatic, hope you will be too! 

to be continued.....