Paper scraps, glue sticks and challenges
....these are a few of my favorite things.

I have been participating in the Februllage Collage challenge on Instagram and the daily prompts have been a great addition to my daily routine. 
My work is entirely different from most of the other traditional collage artists, but, no matter - I love creating these characters. Not all the collages are winners - but there are some serious contenders in the mix - and the creative exercise is well worth it.

​ I really do "sketch" better with scissors. 

My work has taken a little turn....a 180.  Cheeky Mushrooms and now Cact-Ass sculpture.....pretty little succulents. hahaha 

There are many reasons for this new collection -  I think it is funny.....and I sort of love shocking certain people in my life.....and then there is the fact that I have been working out A LOT , running, weight training ...and I am SORE all the time. So you can say certain body parts are always on my mind.  
But there is also the body positivity angle and the pun factor....and I just flat out like them. 

Working on a few new practical pieces - jewelry holders, tea lights.....  stay tuned.   

Air - Water - Fire - Earth 
These four elements, sit on a shelf that will be mounted to a wall. 

Air is blowing bubbles - a glass prisim represents the bubble 
Water is sitting serenely with her flowing hair 
Fire is ready for anything
Earth is pondering 

I love depicting the Elements as a sisterhood.
Intertwined, dependent on each other, yet completely independent. 


This is the secret project I was working on before Christmas ....strangely (frustratingly enough) it is still supposed to remain a secret. SOMEDAY, I will be able to share the story behind these girls.  
I love their little faces - every time I look at them I wonder where they came from.

I know I made them,
I remember squishing the materials and applying the concrete....
BUT they are all just so 'themselves' the process is always a mystery to me. 
I remember starting projects and am aware of the basic tasks, but ...still a mystery. 

.....one day I will share the story behind this project. one day....


 
  

Deadlines and holidays and medical stuff and family,  oh my.  The chaos is my comfort zone. I even added a few nonessential projects along the way - to distract me?!   

But none of this feels like stress.

I love this part of the storyline.   This unknowing.     How it is all going to come together? 

None of my business.  

My job is to simply show up and do what I can where I am at the moment with what I have in front of me. And somehow that is always enough.  

Homeless Jesus has a home for the next few weeks ( he has to be home before his birthday...) but for now, he is living in my studio!    This is such an honor, working on this sculpture is simply amazing.  ​

I am working on multiple sculptures of my own, under strict deadlines, but this additional project is SO worth it.

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Have you heard of the Homeless Jesus sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz?  The bronze sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz depicts Jesus, identifiable by the wounds on his feet, sleeping on a street bench wrapped in a blanket.
There are replicas located in prominent urban locations, such as Buenos Aires, Capernaum, New York, Madrid,  Melbourne, Rome and Singapore, Homeless Jesus now dots the globe. There are six replicas in Canada alone.

Thanks to an interesting series of events - I was asked to restore the Homeless Jesus sculpture that is currently located in Bay Village, Ohio. This particular sculpture made national headlines this year after someone made a 911 call about a homeless man on a bench. 



​  20 minutes after a replica of the sculpture was installed at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay Village, Ohio, a community member called the emergency department, mistaking it for a person in need. Saturday Night Live lampooned this story in a skit on their Oct. 17 show.

It really is a thought provoking piece. I knew what it looked like from images on the computer, but when I walked up to it in person - it is powerful. 

​"The statue has been described as a "visual translation" of the Gospel of Matthew passage in which Jesus tells his disciples, "as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me".[2] Schmalz intended for the bronze sculpture to be provocative, admitting, "That's essentially what the sculpture is there to do. It's meant to challenge people."

This particular piece has been roughed up a bit and needs touched up ....so 
JESUS IS COMING to my studio!!! 
  (the resin Jesus, not the risen Jesus)   He'll be hanging out in the warm space getting all pampered and then he'll be picked up and delivered back in time for his birthday.  (translation, I have him until December 22) 


This is a surprising extra project to tackle on an already busy month, but how could I not?!?!


   
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