found art LOST

with this weeks theme being,"lost", i tried to just draw what ever came to mind ,without thinking too much about taking any particular direction(no direction=lost) and came up with this little sketch. after looking at it ,i felt like if i had to describe what i had lost it would be my head ( : ..or worse my mind. after the drawing i went in search of an appropriate poem about loss and found this emily dickenson poem,"the lost thought"
"I FELT a clearing in my mind As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam, But could not make them fit.
The thought behind I strove to join Unto the thought before, But sequence ravelled out of reach Like balls upon a floor."

i have a book of poetry that i found this poem in,however when i went online to copy n paste it on here i found that some sites quoted the first line as ,"i felt a CLEAVING" and some "a CLEARING" in my opinion they both make sense because she describes her "split" feeling.

i "lose my head' a lot, usually out of excitement, i tend to be a happy overreactor ( :

found art-mother

appropriately, this weeks theme is,"mother". i remember when i was in my 20's having an epiphany- my parents were just regular people! just like me! it wasn't fair that i had always held them up to super hero standards, measuring them up and feeling cheated. oh, it was refreshing; a relief, sitting there going,"ohhhh, i get it, they are actually their own people, with lives and titles outside of ,"mom" and,"dad". though, at that time, i had not yet had children of my own. after my first(of two) was born and my whole life changed ,i had another epiphany..this mom stuff's not so hard, in fact ,i love it! it's fun, and fulfilling and has truely made me happier than i have ever been in my entire life-i mean it- really.

first i drew a mom and a young boy and a baby, it's a sort of self portrait..sort of ( : then i wrote things that were the staple of motherhood to me,"home" ,"patience","great deep love", compassion" and "sacrifice". i also drew a bandaid ( : , and a few hearts. then i put them all in a globe(xmas ornament). i felt like the mom, the kids and the other ingredients(patience, love,etc..) made a "mother" and i put them in that globe to set them in their own little world because thats how it is-the relationships between mothers and their children, it's exclusive and safe and close.

my materials were: shrinky dink plastic(i'm startin' to love this stuff!)for the words ,journal paper for the drawings, glass globe, and a ribbon to hang it with. i plan on setting it free on moms day ,near the beach where all the moms will be having brunch ( :..or as my sister(who is now participating) would say,"all the mums".

"water" found art

i had a hard time comming up with an image for this topic so i just started gathering blue material. i really had only the idea of movement in mind as i began attaching things to blue card stock.
the materials used are ,foam paper, card stock, oragami paper, fabric paint, braided rope, ribbon, seed beads, thread, a brad, and the fish was cut out an orange popsicle box ( : the ribbon is only attached at the base ,so it can move, the beads also are free flowing..or dangling, and the fish is attached with a brad so that it can swim..in circles anyway-he he he.
i was planning on saturating the small town of halcyon with my found art, in hopes that someday they would discover that over the period of several months they had all had similar ,"found art" experiences, and that would lead to a lengthy dialogue on the topic. that however, has proven to be too difficult to pull off anonymously. halcyon has a population of about 50 and i could sense how quickly they became suspicious of an outsider visiting so frequently. i went several times to drop off my "travel" found art, but chickened out under the watchful eye of a shop owner, now it's sittting in a book on "collage" in the local library. i'm toying with the idea of sending them away to reletives to abandon in their cities so that it will have a farther reach.

---THE TOP PIC IS WHERE I SET IT FREE ( : IN SHELL BEACH CA DURING AN EVENT CALLED,"ART IN THE PARK"