The Wee Peeple Newsletter
April 2024 Issue 206
The Dollmaker Returns to Dollmaking!
Well... not quite...
Does Mushroom-making count as Dollmaking??
Ok...at this point, yes.
It's a start... and three cheers for the evolution
of a distinctly new Mushroom Species in the Wee World!!
This type uses Batiks and other previously forbidden fabrics...
When things pop up out of the compost:
Sympathetic Mushroom Consciousness:
a sudden Discovery of Garden-hardened
Real Avocado Peel Mushroom Caps!
Accidental! Real! Inviting! Rare! Convincing! Elusive! Organic!
So delicately hardened! Must conjure more of these!
(It's all in the way you cut the avocado!)
so... onwards- towards more forbidden fabrics and Variations on a Theme!
while Mycelial fibers spread, unnoticed, throughout the Underworld...
ah, Smithville...
Creating Public Art in Smithville, Texas
The Lost Pines Artisans Alliance
has been awarded a grant by the Texas Commission on the Arts
for
a giant Mosaic Installation
called:
The Theme:
"Natural Resources and Agriculture"
Wow! What?
Local Artists to Mosaic the outside of THIS Building!
Right Ho! A two-story Mosaic Creation
to be Installed atop the extant shiplap siding, intending to beautify
the Mary Nichols Art Center
and galvanize the Smithville Community into Artsy Action!
Open Invitation! Come one! Come All!
Anyone can join in a public "Mosaic Maker's Workshop"
and take pride in helping to create what is sure to become
a historical (and hopefully not hysterical) local Icon!
A team of Artists was selected to visualize and promote this project
linking Art to Agriculture through the medium of Mosaics
(among them, the Dollmaker)
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The Goal of the Project (as defined by the Grant) is to instill an appreciation for local "Natural Resources and Agriculture"
The Dollmaker was assigned a sheltered spot under the porch roof... to the left of the Front Door.. ..probably due to her misunderstanding that it was a good idea to bring an impressive variety of organic materials to the first meeting..
(She has decided, since then, to only use "Faux" Organic materials.. such as Rocks painted to look like corn, not real corn.. etc..)
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So, the Dollmaker's Design
started with the Idea of Concentric Circles
radiating out from a central "sun"
in the manner of Van Gogh...
Concentric Circles. Laid out on Hardie Board.
Representing the Cycles of Life. The Cyclical Seasons... The Expanding Universe!
...the pastoral charm of Hay Bales drying in the sun...
of course, in Texas, all Seasons are not equal...
So... Nine Hardie Board squares form the Circle.
The Whole Design can be broken down into
nine easily moveable pieces
making it efficient for Community Members to work on the project.
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The Dollmaker will be asking her Participants to think of relevant objects which could be added to each section of the Circle of Life
Since many of her Participants will be children this is going to get interesting... |
Workshops, in fact, will take place at the cool Community Gardens Building
featuring a Ray-Bradbury-style-Imaginarium of tantalizing jars full of curious Mosaic Possibilities
for artistically inclined Minds!
She finds laying the project out on the floor is helpful.
starting with the central Nine Hardie Board Squares..
Experimenting with Floral Designs, Thin Set, Adhesives and some colors.
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Mosaic Design Materials may include
Natural articles such as local Snail Shells, "Burned Tools", glass beads, and marbles all salvaged from the ashes of the historic Bastrop Fire, along with other fragments of weather-resistant metals, ceramics, and stone which could represent Seeds and other Organic Life Forms... The committee discussed plastering actual Seeds to the walls but decided that real seeds would deteriorate in time. (or -worst case- sprout!)
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so, New Beginnings, as predicted..
Installation using bucket trucks etc is targeted for mid-July
with a grand End-of-Project Celebration no later than August 15th.
Right now the participating Artists are working on their designs,
ordering and gathering supplies.
We shall see how all this turns out... stay tuned.
Almost every day in April
new flowers popped out in the Highway Gardens!
Such a Joy!
Increased incentive to clear away the grass
and build more new raised beds!
Time for a fresh load of Garden Rocks!
The Dollmaker just loves Rock Borders!
Enjoy, along with the Dollmaker, the vibrant new energy of Spring!
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