spoonful of sugar

woven necklace I: Metal Mineral Wood Wool (work in progress)

2007-05-04T12:54:00.000-07:00

Photos up at Weeds Cafe!

2007-05-04T12:44:00.000-07:00

17 prints from the tree mandala series are up for the month of may at Weeds Cafe (1903-20 ave NW)

bracelet for Yamuna

2007-02-28T13:13:00.000-08:00

this is the first part of a bracelet i'm making for my friend Yamuna's birthday. it's all scrap metal wire, from my toolbox of bits and ends. i think it's galvanized steel wire, (the larger hammered bits) and then a thinner wire of some silvery metal sort. i'm thinking it needs some colour so i might weave some silk thread (salvaged from silk sarees) through it as well.

even snowflakes love her

2007-02-28T13:11:00.000-08:00

more tree mandalas (charcoal, magnetic, abyss, tiki)

2007-02-15T13:04:00.000-08:00

my pear trees are resting

2007-02-15T13:01:00.000-08:00

2007-02-15T12:59:00.000-08:00

i know i'm home by the sun and the moon

2007-02-15T12:57:00.000-08:00

2007-02-15T12:55:00.000-08:00

waterlight paintings

2007-02-15T12:50:00.000-08:00

if you love cheese and disco...

2007-02-15T12:47:00.000-08:00

tree mandalas

2007-02-14T23:57:00.000-08:00

making and contemplating tree mandalas keeps me for uncountable hours. there seem to be all sorts of creatures in there. i am wondering how to coax these creatures from these static images into animations. i'm not sure how much detail will show in these reduce quality images, but if you look closely, the little details where the small branches come together are just amazing. the quality of the shapes and patterns are so original and purposeful.

more trees

2007-02-14T23:35:00.000-08:00

about trees

2007-02-14T22:56:00.000-08:00

i think at some point i'll start a seperate blog for trees only, but for now they'll go here and there and everywhere without any explaination

a lot of spiders

2007-02-14T22:39:00.000-08:00

new shoes! (sort of...)

2007-02-14T22:30:00.000-08:00

from the archives

2007-01-21T01:54:00.000-08:00

inventors are the best geniuses ever invented.

car+fire=nowhere to sit

2007-01-07T13:53:00.000-08:00

since we're on the subject of weaving: silk weaving on dusty street

2007-01-07T13:51:00.000-08:00

exquisite machines part I

2007-01-07T13:40:00.000-08:00

the important things

2007-01-07T13:29:00.000-08:00

2007-01-06T09:09:00.000-08:00

laundscape

2007-01-06T08:59:00.000-08:00

a highly scientific explanation of the occurance of shell fossils found in mountain regions

2007-01-06T08:40:00.000-08:00

Act I
Ocean clothed Land for inches and miles
brachiopods (Ancestors) lounge languorous
Death gifts portals for Spirit;
lingering, shells remain.

Act II
sand sifts shells on ocean floor
on sand lay sand like lovers lie
the weight of generations press history like pages
down. pack tight,
sand turns Stone
suspending shells within.

Act III
plate techtonics bear mountains like fruit:
floors become peaks as inward turns out
Ocean sleeps deeply hushed to ice.

Act IV
awake!
stretching groaning glaciers crackle and crumble
picking sleep from eyes, ice tumbles
Mountain's first breath out of watery womb.

Act V
and ice:
melting
relaxing
receeding
to Ocean River Stream,
carry mountain tops to pebbles rocks and stones
within these morsels of mountain (once ocean floor):
bones of brachiopods (Ancestors) gracefully poised.

swimming elephants

2007-01-05T09:33:00.000-08:00

one of the most blissful things in the world are elephants swimming in the ocean. i saw such things on a documentary about elephants in the andaman islands. if you can find the video (animal planet reveals asia) i urge you to watch it. what it must feel like for the beautiful giants to suddenly feel weightless. amazingly they are extremely graceful swimmers, impishly whispering that they are made for Oceans as much as they are for Jungles.

101 uses for abandoned knitting

2006-10-26T22:56:00.000-07:00

1. colour holder

the feeling of morning

2006-10-24T15:06:00.000-07:00

collection of collections (act I, scene i)

2006-10-17T02:09:00.000-07:00

collecting is creating. language is collections of expression. history is collections of experience. grass is collections of blades. centipedes are collections of legs. landfills are collections of disuse. ecosystems are collections of creatures with shared intent. bodies are collections of cells and systems.

collecting is embracing. bells are bells if they ring, whether they are round or parabolic, brass or wood. skin is skin whether scaly and green or stretchy and brown or hairy and blue.

collecting is attracting. keychains attract keychains from strangers, friends, and far-reaching travellers. recycle bins attract cardboard from houses to cities. puddles attract water, like pilgrims to a sacred shrine.

collecting is aquainting. information/data/observations, samples and specimens, experience and memory. collecting is a process for becoming aware.

empiece

2006-10-17T01:08:00.000-07:00

every blog has a beginning and from this beginning grows a blog.

i'm not sure how to start, so i'll just post something i have bits and pieces of already on a digital media: a brief glimpse of an obsession spanning feb-nov 2005 investigating the affinity we have towards collections and collecting.