Rosalind Wyatt

http://www.rosalindwyatt.com/about.html
Heritage journal entries stitched on vintage kimonos - I'm in love.

the altered book of she vs. he

This has been a journal I put a page into most nights. No matter what I have to work with I often end up with someone really glorious on one page (usually a girl) and some gruff character on the other page with his fists up.

What could it all mean?

50 ideas to add in your altered book

paste in: pockets, envelopes, candy wrappers, fortunes from the cooky, feathers, hair (some people will say that is gross, I know), your best doodles from your notebooks, pretty found items from nature or urban life, fabric scraps, safety pins, teacher's stars, color copies of your photos, magazine pictures that you have messed with (or not messed with), ribbon, rhinestones, baker's twine, leaves, ticket stubs, postcards, pretty paper.

Handmade paper dolls, and handmade paper doll clothes, buttons, vintage ephemera, old stamps, butcher or sandwich paper, coin envelopes, shapes cut from torn out pages (colored to contrast can look nice)

To do lists in pencil, decoupaged decorated napkins, handmade paper flowers, vellum (layers and layers are fun), blank tags that you decorated, tags from your purchases that someone else designed, wee little mirrors, seeds and spices, google eyes, little spindly twigs, slides, butterfly wings, wires, corrogated cardbaord, sushi grass, sequins, dots from the hole puncher, thin wooden comb ( Ijust thought of that and want to try it!), text cut from other sources.......

Altered Book again

These are from the journal I am working on now.

Altered Book

Some images from the latest journal, "boyfriend gallery"

So beautiful

http://www.strongheartfellowship.org/akawelle/Jewelry.htm

Look at this beautiful girl! She is a refuge from Liberia where she collected bullet shells from the war to melt and make into necklaces. 100% of the profits go to the Strongheart House, a residential school for Liberian children.

So beautiful!

Making stuff

Thats what I did this weekend. Truthfully, I was depressed about a coupla things going on. Late Friday I turned on Antony and the Johnsons and made a big chalk painting inspired by each song. Highly enjoyable. Then I made some accessories with junk from the ribbon box and I walked around the house feeling like the queen of lonely feelings.

The art journals

I don't claim at all, ever to be an artist. But I do like to draw and create and I like other people to draw and create and dance because that is our birthright, really.

Right now I am doing a series of exercises from a book called "Creative Journaling" that help with tuning into one's feelings, identifying the root problems, expressing what is blocked and so on. This picture was a self-portrait sort of deal. A lot of what I'd drawn thus far was random imagery and somewhere in me I was expecting a black blob to show up in the page. But I made this feral woman with a necklace of bugs and snakes and fangs and a smile. And I liked it.

Art and activism is fun fun fun!

http://www.knittaplease.com/ABOUT.html

What to do with the unfinished knitting projects?

"Then it dawned on them… a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings."

All over the country people are creating this unusual, handmade public art to make the streets a little more "warm and fuzzy".

Miranda July

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

Oh, Miranda July.

On this website she gives assignments and people do them and send them in and she displays what she online. Some communities put together shows with the assignments she has given.

I like this idea of interactive community art and I have my own ideas brewing...