Light, white and flight

 

Sadly Old Man Crow (Rod) died today - when thinking about this I thought of his spirit flying free. Interesting that I came across the beautiful delicate white (and grey) feather on the road as I walked - reminded me of free flight.

Sun highlighted heart at the front door for Mo Crow.

The day started with soft but clear light as you can see in the photo of my favourite tree.

I found white as I walked.

And a bonus was the beauty offered by G's unfurling orchids to lift our spirits.

Peace and freedom OMC.

Weekend fragments

 

My time over the weekend was a bit fragmented - spent some of Saturday at DEP and all of today. So the outcome,e was a bit of metal and a bit of letterpress as you will see from the blog post.

I did get to polish the bowl (about 15-17cm in diameter) above. I liked the heavy hammer marks so rather than smoothing those away I decided to leave the bowl as it is. Made from a vintage silver-plated placemat.

I finished the bowls and leaves for the three Daily Leaf Word sets.

I spent quite a bit of time proofing and adjusting the middle pages of my daily words poem book. I wanted to get it right so that I can repeat the layout and lock up for the remaining pages. I will attempt to do an edition of 20-25.

In response to the decision of governments regarding omicron I decided to print a nano-poster (20 copies ) simply reflecting the fact that countries require healthy people if the are to have healthy economies. Seems sensible to me that you can't produce and deliver if you don't have a workforce to do that. Beautiful vintage 72 point wood type - love the grain and old ink staining some of the timber.

So a very bibs and bobs weekend really.

Small sculpture and Daily Words

 

I have been putting together a collection of metal pieces that will go into a pop-up display-shop in Caloundra gallery. I was pleased to finish the above small leaf sculpture - it could go into a garden, on a deck or hallway table as it is about 50cm H, 50cm L, 20cm W.

As you can see the leaf forms on aluminium rod are now set into a curve of rust - cut from segment of very heavy gauge metal pipe that was given to me. It took a reasonable amount of time cutting and drilling - but I like how the rust complements the patinated copper.

I am progressing the 3 sets of daily leaf words - one a commission and the other two because I need stock. The commission includes the words forgiveness and generosity.

I need to polish about another 14 leaves and the commission plus the other two sets are done.

Seeking yellow - for optimism and hope

 

Times are a tough for many at the moment - huge covid outbreak, rain, cyclones and flooding. When I thought about going for my morning walk I wondered what might catch my eye that might uplift one. 

Strangely enough as I exercised at home it was the sunflowers that Fiona had bought to add a bit of cheer to the house - which they do - that caught my eye. I decided that I would seek yellow both in the house and out on my walk - yellow for optimism, hope, healing.

So first some more yellow in the house - on our Aboriginal art and a glass heart.

Then out and about yellows popped up - sharing some here - including tiny yellow flower with ant.

A visit to G's orchid house offered a couple of shades of yellow.

May hope and healing touch our lives.

A giveaway, progressing posts and cutting metal

 

Recently I reprinted a couple of my patriarchy posters and associated tea towels (aka domestic posters). I still have a few of the tea towels that are grammatically incorrect - apostrophes where they should not be. So instead of throwing them away I decided I would give them away - with the offending apostrophe crossed out as you will see from the photo above and below.

If you want one of these tea towels leave a comment on the blog; and tell me which tea towel you want. I will give the tea towels to the first four folk to leave a comment.

I took delivery of some big timbers - 200mm square by 3m long cypress logs. I'm cutting the logs into posts for a three post sculpture installation. I have cut the three posts I need - enough timber left for another installation.

I have also started accumulating rusted stuff for the posts - still out in the rain curing (rusting) nicely.

I have been asked to make some daily leaf words with specific words - so today I cut up silver-plated placemats for three sets of daily word leaves. Whilst I was doing that I decided to cut silver-plated 'pages' for nine small metal books - see below. I kept the engraved section to give back to the person who donated the placemats to me.

A good feeling when one progresses a few projects.

A different sort of day

 

The focus of the day was metal - melting and pouring metal; cutting silver-plated blanks for word leaves; and slicing tiny (1cm)  and small (2cm) solid silver hearts. As you can see from the above phots above and below I managed to slice the metal for the solid silver hearts.

You can see I was slicing the poured metal with a saw because my side grinder needs servicing. The hearts will make gorgeous  earrings and pendants when polished.

But that is where the time in the workshop finished for the day. Thankfully my time was flexible so I was able to use the rest of the day and a bit of the evening giving a few folk a hand.