beginnings

the envelope was opened and read! I cant believe that we live in such different places.........you in the city and me in ...........well in the midst of the forest! Thats it! Forest forest and yet more forest.

You are surrounded by inspiration, excitement, city life and a buzz....................I am surrounded by ......................nothing.

Nothing except nature.

You began with hands - the colour green - and a truly amazing enquiring wondering of what people leave behind after graffiti.

What a beginning - wow!

My brain has been buzzing all day - brainstorming

green - green fingers .-green gloves- green prints - prints on surfaces - obscured writing - plants and the blossoming - blossoming???? Of plants , ideas, a partnership?

Tracings - outlines - ideas - outlines on textures - distances..................

distances between city life and the forest - hands stretched out to connect , to join together - a combining of cultures................................

backgrounds - an afterthought - destruction as in graffiti - a cry for help? Is graffiti a cry for help - a message left by someone for another person to read?

is our collaboration a message to each other - are you trying to understand me and me you?

Interesting beginnings ......................................................... thank you.

Sara

Home again,

I am very happy to be back at home.
I share with you some views from my garden.
Everything is growing rapidly and
looks lovely and lush.

I am impatiently waiting
for receipt of the envelope
that was posted from Canada to Sweden
last week.

alone

my other head is off at a conference - although I think she is back now ! :0) Good - cos I miss her around.

But I have still been thinking through some ideas to get us off the ground ........... and look what I found this morning! We have been talking about weaving huh? well there is an interesting bit here - I cant wait to get this project on the road - I will try to get some ideas off to you this week..............................

figures figures figures!!! I have collected some great images - hope that you find these inspiring too!

Sara

from chicago

ooh - have some great ideas for collaborations !
saw a project done in glass jars .... so inspiring !
more again when i'm home next week.

errands

I too am a bit overrun at the moment - but that doesnt stop me thinking! I am going to base my ''art work'' on figures - whether doodles, sketches, collages all things - I want you have loads of inspiration and plenty to work with !

Its a pity when life gets in the way!

But it is working out well in my head! - in the meantime

some flowers to brighten your day ...................

Sara

I love this quote .....

"Freedom is found along the guiding lines of discipline."
(Yehudi Menuhin)

today i look forward to a full day of work.
I am looking forward to getting some new pieces
made. No, not yet for our own
collaboration project, but for
my own "job".

Work can commence
as soon as i accomplish some
out of the house errands ...

n.

thoughts to ponder

"The most basic, primitive and necessary visual information
is found in luminance variations. The parts of our brains that
analyze a scene are colourblind."
(Margaret Livingstone)

Picasso noted that "Reality is to be found in
lightness and darkness."
But this comes from a painter who
rarely thought in terms of colour.
A shimmering orange sun
razzle-dazzling within an
equal-intensity grey-blue sky was not his style.
You could call this Picasso's handicap.
Many a fine
style has evolved from a decent handicap.
(Robert Genn)


nadine.

Monday from Canada

Oooh:
thought provoking ideas ???
wow. i hope i can live up to that.
i don't feel very thought provoking so far.

howdy doody

welcome from Sweden!

The beginning of a collaboration, a blog, and a joining togther of 2 artists through thought provoking ideas!



''The start, was just a start, she said,
a new and different world.

and if we meet in other worlds,
our thoughts are all but old.

We've met before? I questioned her,
in another place, somewhere....

but now the time is standing here
the time to be , to dare.........................''


................the beginning of a collaboration......................

who knows what will happen..................

what will evolve..................


ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....................

Sara

Welcome