- The Throat Clearing. Dear God, please make it stop. Pleeeeeeease. Between that and the woman with the gooey-wet smoker’s cough, I may lose my mind. Or vomit. Or both.
- I somehow managed to get soy sauce on the bottom of my jeans this morning. Only, I haven’t been anywhere near soy sauce in days, so where the heck did it come from?
- I’ve been playing around with redecorating the website, and have updated the sections with subdivision pages (painting, sketchbooks/journals, gluebbooks/collage, and the main page). The images for the links on the left will change, and I may rearrange/add some categories, just to see if I can break Teh Internets, but the rest of it is basically how I want it. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to work on the rest of it this weekend.
- I also finally looked at the new blog template in IE and eeew! I don’t know if it was the settings on my machine, or if it’s just how it was translating universally, but it had a grey background and white text, which was really foul looking. That’s been fixed.
- Thirdly, I need to specify link colors, and specify color change and underlining when hovered over.
- For one horrible minute, I thought it was Monday.
- Someone on Paint_L mentioned Art Spectrum Colourfix Primer, which sounds like it’d be really handy for collage. They claim it can be used as an adhesive, as well as a primer for both acrylic and oil. Bonds aggressively? Sign me up! I can’t wait to give it a try.
- It’s windy. Really windy. I’m not going to complain, though, at least not too much, because it’s also pretty nice outside.
- I lost another earring, so I gave up and took them all out. I never wear anything but studs, so it’s kind of pointless to bother with them, even though they’ll grow over quickly.
Day: January 24, 2006
Hemp Bound Journal: Three Things (reworked)
I really didn’t like the way this page originally looked. It was nothing but silver, which worked better conceptually than visually. The only parts I ended up keeping were the coin, mirror, and key. Everything else was gessoed and collaged over. It’s not perfect, but it’s a huge improvement.
collage (fragments from old patent book, key, coin, and mirror fragment) with oil pastel, Neocolors II water soluble wax crayons, instant coffee, gesso, and india ink
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches
Three things
Are not four things.
Three things
Are sharper than knives,
Silent famines of thought that
Shine silver like moons in the dark.
Three things are perfectly cold
By intent
By design
By the deadliest scheme.
Three things are ancient wheels
That turn in the night,
Near misses and reflections.
Three things
Are stitching thought to flesh to deed,
Bone drawing blood slickened sinew.
Three things are problematic monsters
Ministering, waiting, and watching.
red paper boat 