A skeleton on the loo

So this is how one spends a Friday, carting Esqaualita around the village and plonking her on the bog. This is what happens when Nancy and I get together and have another so called brilliant idea! It is meant to be a postcard for the ChamberPot Gallery opening reception in June and this is one of the samples. So I was wondering if any of you have fun caption ideas for the back of the card? We label the chamberpot gallery as the loo with a view, a place where one can meets natures need and enjoy a curated art exhibit.

So Nancy goofs off to read Jo's new book,while I am taking photos, humph! and a then there was the hen/ bachelorette party that required the services of the loo and seeing the skeleton had to goof around a bit. I didn't get the young lady's name, but she is getting married today and I hope she has a beautiful day :)

signing off
Semper Fi

The Girl and the Fly

photo and collage by C.Bayrak
I promised my daughter I would put a nicer picture of her up on my blog, and here I think she looks stunning (I am not biased of course). I seem to have this fly thing going on, but I love how it looks. Often in mythology it has negative connotations but to the Navajo Indians it is known as the guardian of Balance of Nature in Native America Mythology and is considered a "mentor and advice giver". It also can be a symbol to ward off evil and pestilence.

Doggone it!

Doggone it that feeling clings on for dear life
but
It's Dogged as Does It

Art in a Ball and Tattoo Baby Genesis

Undaunted asked what sort of art we (moi, Nancy, Talitha and Jennifer) put in our art vending machine. I don't have any recent pics but here are a few samples of earlier pieces. The challenge is coming up with pieces that are original, not labor intensive and don't require buying supplies to make. The Art Vending machine is not a money maker, but it is fun and people seem to really enjoy it, especially the kids.

Sue asked where I came up with the idea to do the tattoo doll and it actually all started with an old fan I found on the side of a road a few years ago. I used one of my favourite methods of painting, which is to use black as my base and then a coat of white paint (which I sometimes sand down a bit).

I had the fan lying around the studio and I was staring at the fan as I was having a hot flash. I decided to decorate it and call it "menopause". I had so much fun doing it and wanted to decorate something else so I grabbed my garage sale cabbage patch doll. Unlike the current doll I used a black marker which bled a bit when I shellacked it, so this time I used acrylic paint for the markings. Interesting to see them side by side and the connection because they are both to do with womanhood and a change of life.

Check out this 5,200 years old tattoo at Smithsonian Magazine
Prison Tats-who,what & where
Body Art: Marks of Identity at the American Museum of Natural History

Tattoo Baby

For fun I did a google search to see if others are doing anything like my tattoo baby. While I haven't found anyone doing a tattoo baby doll like mine, I did find this interesting exhibit called the Tattoo Baby Doll Project. I can't say I had a grand theme behind doing this like the Baby Doll Project as mine are more whimsical with an allusion to the light and dark within all of us (hence the yin and yang aspect of this one). Here is an earlier one which was meant to be found art and was adopted by the Emporium several years ago.

Art Competition

Vote for your Favourite Artwork

at Laketrees blog
Here is my entrythe story about"the apology"

Nope she never apologized so I did this!
Poor girl has been getting it ever since I took up art,
but that's what happens when you are gorgeous and a muse.

Bloggers Unite for Human Rights

Amnesty International joins BlogCatalog and urges Bloggers Unite to fight for Human Rights News Release

" ID"

Every day men, women and children are murdered, raped, bullied, beaten, and tortured because they are the identified as being the wrong colour, wrong faith, wrong ethnicity, wrong beliefs, wrong politics,wrong this, wrong that, wrong! wrong! wrong! And if they are not wrong in some way, then they are the target of greed and exploitation. Slavery is not in the past, it is here, it is now and it is in YOUR neighbourhood.
The Trafficking of Women and Children-Human Rights Watch
Transit points of Human Trafficking

"The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that 50,000 people are trafficked into or transited through the U.S.A. annually as sex slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves."
source: Modern day slavery

Amnesty International

"State Department Calls on Citizens to Fight Human Trafficking"

Cnn Video on Bloggers Unite

Art Vending Machine and Textile Totems

If you are visiting Yellow Springs, Ohio then check out the Jafagirls artball machine located in the Nolaa Gallery in Kings Yard. You will know where it is when you see the textile totem outside the gallery :)

"Phineas Fallis"Did this a while back as a demo piece on a vinyl record for an Arts Council Art Stroll Party at the Hip Joint. It is now hanging in the home of the person who returned my Vampire Bunny :)
It is based on a ceramic dog I have sitting in my studio.

Something Old, Something New

No, not talking about Nancy. I am talking about an old piece of knitting that Nancy and I stitched onto another pole (nancy did the hearts) on Dayton Street. Tried something new on Saturday . I was helping my daughter sell cupcakes at the Farmer's Market for charity and the booth next to us was selling buffalo meat. I tried some buffalo meat jerky and YUM it was good.
Okay, so I tried the buffalo meat, BUT
Squirrel Pasties?
Eating Grey Squirrels has become very popular in England and in some places they are flying off the shelves.

Bits & Bobs, This & That

Doodled in my sketchbook, made textile totem embellishments with foam, finished my vinyl record painting.

I got this from hubby on Mother's Day
In Case of Emergency Break Glass
Mother gets grumpy without her tea



PIZZA BOX COMPETITION
Art News Blog had a link to an art competition, I thought what the heck, why not give it a go! If you have time check it out and tell me what you think.
Design your own Pizza Box

Oooh, check out pollocksthebollocks pizza box design, I would buy pizza just so I could get the box :)
Or how about this one by the Bird Proofer David Howard
Here is Maria's (busy in London with her play-woo hoo) at Baaahhh