It's true. Until I picked up the latest round-robin book back on the 16th, I accomplished just this: one window curtain in my kid's room. Haven't even made the other one yet. But I'm cranking away at the Dia de los Muertos theme of the new book, and once I get through my second reading of the Harry Potter series, I might just (gasp!) sew another curtain. Fallow periods happen.

from the Altered Book Round Robin

March 09.

Excerpt from "On Writing An Illinois Poem" by James McGowan.

Artwork created within an old geography textbook.

Surely the People Are Grass

An oddly cropped photo of "Surely the People Are Grass" - and a detail (sort of, below).
Click on the photos for enlargements.
Size 13.5x17.5 inches.
Fabric, beads, yarn, string; and 6 pieces from my collection of paper objects that wash up in the clean laundry. (Laundry findings.)

Isaiah 40:6-8









A detail, taken before several formal problems were resolved. After adding Mr. Robin to the death image -- hope for resurrection and eventual springtime. Faith in renewal.

coming attractions

Views from the most recent Altered Book Round Robin...and a little progress on "Grass." (Tonight I saw my own altered book, the little one I started back in November, being passed from the fourth to the fifth artist on its road to immortality. It appears as though someone has made a little carrying case for it!!! I so wanted to peek, but I think that's a little like ultrasound -- legal, even wise in some cases, but taking the fun out of uncertainty.)

work in progress

"For are not all men grass?"

journal update

It's hard to predict where these images will land when I publish the post. This is (left to right in the book) "I was hungry/Our daily bread." Photo laser transfer, carbon paper, thread, fabric, waxed Tortas wrapper, other collage elements. The central image of "Our daily bread" is a repeat of the child seen in "Keep Looking" and is superimposed over a hole in the Tortas wrapper, which in turn is layered over a photo negative of the Sacred Heart of Jesus image (seen on the left.) Click any image for a larger view.

Completed 1/10/09

Another Altered Books page

This one from a volume on Music owned by Clare Farrell.
"Wayfaring Stranger/Muse" collage, with photo laser transfer, watercolors, stamping etc.
Completed 1/8/09.