1”x 1”, found objects
As I sit in Mexico in amazing 85 degree weather, learning about concrete and swimming in the pool, I’m getting emails about a blizzard at home. I know where I’d choose to be right now! This pendant is made from pieces of a shiny pill package. Is it snow or sunlight glinting on the water?
1/2″x 2″, glass
I’ve spent this week at one of the local elementary schools, working with the art teacher to have every class help with a school-wide mosaic project. When the kids aren’t working on the collaborative piece they’re making their own small mosaics with tiny vitreous tiles and sorting them by color. As almost 800 kids have come through the room I’ve seen enough tiny tiles to make my head spin. But seeing the variety of designs they can create on a very small substrate is also exciting. This pendant is a nod to what tiny vitreous tiles can do. Even just a few can become something interesting.
1″ x 1/2″, polymer clay and slate
These pieces of polymer clay, made originally by @atomicgarden, have such a richness from the mixing and folding of colors. And slate has greens, blues, oranges, browns hiding inside. I’ve been watching my skin age and I see so many new shapes, new tones, new colors. I look at my grandmother’s skin and I see even more variety, the marks of 97 long years. The changes are subtle and slow, but they create such an interesting palette.
1″ x 1″, glass
After Halloween one year we had a cabinet so packed with candy that it was falling out whenever we’d open the door. We let the kids choose one night to do a candy clean-out, which meant they could eat as much candy as they wanted and then we’d throw out the rest. The concept has now been expanded to baked goods, snacks and whatever sweets are the cabinet, and it happens a few times each season. On the one hand, it’s not super healthy. But on the other, it makes them so gosh darn happy! Here’s my square-inch ode to the candy clean-out.