Theme for the Day: Repetition
This is my day … pack, peel, and stick… repeat. This is the day I get to do all the international mailing and distribution packs for the newest issue Fall 2012: Rhythm and Flow. It involves packing envelopes and clear mailers, sealing them, sticking on the labels and doing this over and over again. The repetition gets one into a nice rhythm well-accompanied by some good sing-a-long music.
Which of course brings us to this issue’s theme and the desire to find something to counter the regular rhythm of my work. Here is a just amazing wall piece by those great innovators Ford and Forlano called “Pebbles Galaxy”.
There is definitely repetition of all kinds here — color, form, motif and texture. But the rhythm is utterly random, quite child-like in its placement yet reminiscent of rocks at the bottom of a river eddy — reminding us that there is an underlying reason for every arrangement in nature and created by a child’s hand. The caption says it has a removable pin. It is 13″ high so I’m thinking there could have been multiple pins, a pendant, a pair of earrings and a belt buckle if they worked it right. I really do like the idea of wall art that you can take pieces of to wear and share outside the place it is housed.
Well, for now, I have but another issue to share with you, to send off beyond TPA headquarters. I do hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you!
This above inspiring image is brought to you by the Ganoksin project, a jeweler’s resource site. The link takes you to their archive of an article by Marjorie Simon for Metalsmith Magazine (Winter 2003) about Ford and Forlano.
Marilyn Da Silva did a delightful piece of art in 2004, titled Second Nature Family. Worked in copper and coloured with pencil. It features three brooches mounted on etching. Colour, form and texture. A beautiful wearable piece of wall art.
Looking forward to my copy of the Fall ecition.