Today was another day in this new crazy world that offered the following: a friend canceled plans at the time we were supposed to meet, which meant that I also couldn't run the errand that I had planned to run as an alternative. While sitting at a bistro I overheard two students discussing their recent high-school graduation, the heat, how the sun burned more than usual...I muttered, "I wonder how the ozone layer is doing". They turned toward me, with genuine ignorance and no ridicule; "What's the ozone layer?" Well. F..k.
On my way home, I entered a surplus store that occasionally has surprisingly good stuff. My haul: Stickers.
YES. STICKERS.
Not the stickers of childhood, which one eventually outgrows. These stickers come in 3D from kitsch and kawai to "vintage European ephemera, daily planner, botanical, space dragon mystical grimoirecauldronharrypotteroldticketsletterhead *catches breath* stickers. Mini works of art that make it home into my little art journals that I've prepped with gesso and washes on the days were I just need to create something.
Take that Patisserie...uhm, what?
(Omg. Philistine AI autocorrected Matisse)
While looking up other synonyms for non-intellectual, AI actually couldn't offer "an overview". Croissant and Patisserie is as far as AI got when it comes to French names.
Where was I?
Take that, Monsieur Matisse and your colored paper cut-outs. You too, Rauschenberg and Man Ray and your magazine collage cut outs. In the 21st century we have stickers thanks to the scrap booking industry. They make my life better.
What object or objects used for creativity is improving your life in this century?
I like it. My DIL has a cricut machine so she prints t-shirts and bookmarks and yes, stickers.
ReplyDeleteMay I post a link to your blog on my blogroll?
Codex: Looked at the cricut some time ago. It's fairly amazing what one can make. It's too craft project for me plus I like treasure hunting for paper goods. Old stores used to sell colorful stamps in a bag by theme. Fun to be had.
ReplyDeleteCodex: Yes. I'd be honored if I was added to your roll. :) Please check your mail first.
ReplyDeletePaint pens. I also draw in the margins of everything. Art is my road not taken and I always imagine I’ll come back to it eventually and yet I haven’t yet. Gesso! That brought back memories.
ReplyDeleteCodex: Which ones? Yes, I remember you mentioned it. It's never too late. There are so many online courses. Gesso is the first step to becoming une artiste. Do tell:)
DeleteIt's not just auto correct that plagues me but my aging keyboard where some of the keys just don't want to work when I tap them unless I'm looking directly at them.
ReplyDeleteTotally done with glass as a medium, I've turned, as you know, to colored pencils and watercolors.
Codex: Yes I know:)
DeleteI was referring more to tools that are better in this century.