Beelieve

Revealing Beauty

It is time!

Welcome to my contribution to an amazing reveal day.  Thanks to our amazing host, Seth Apter...I raise my coffee mug to you and will save it for future art!  To learn more about "DisCo" go to the DisCo Discovery post and get lost in the confluence of beauty through disintegration.

First and foremost, I am a science gal...a chemist by degree practicing as a pharmacist, but the science of art and therefore experimentation is my life.  I could not be happier to join in this collaboration.  You may view my other posts to see all involved in my bundle, the results...etc but this is the day for blooming. To Seth, who wrote:

 "The impact of time on both nature (think the budding and blooming of a plant) and man-made objects (think the rusting of a metal washer dropped in the street) has always been fascinating for me"

I could not agree more and hope you enjoy how my piece blooms :)

Science
place yourself in the hands of the invention
with all the beautiful vitality of a flower
-it opens with the dawn

I should let you know now I closed my brain for a while so my soul could speak...there was no planning. no thinking, no distractions....I just reached into my beautiful disintegration goodies and created

I invited my friend the crow to help me open this flower...

 

the chains become seeds secured in beeswax

 

the leaves are what balance the large bloom...

whether it be a furtive eye

 

or an ingenuous peek

 

it is all a part of the curves in her stem that keep her balanced

I call this piece "Perceiving the Guise"

 

Then I had time for "Soul Cage"...open to what it means to you...to me it was a bit of fun and it's all good!

 

remembering Newton's Law

2nd Law of motion~If a body be acted on by several forces,it will obey each as though the others did not exist, and this whether the body be at rest or in motion.

 

now shift your focus..

 

Can not even conclude with anything better than another quote from Seth:

"Symbolically, I feel that aging, disintegration, and decay are natural parts of evolution which create something of value and are not necessarily endings, or things to be discarded or dismissed. To me this relates to our own aging, to the value of recycling and repurposing, and to the recognition of the beauty of weathered and distressed objects – be they a rusty fence, a wall with peeling paint, or ourselves!"

I look forward to seeing everyone's reveal...but later. Right now the sun is shining there is a boat waiting to depart, a bikini with my name on it because honey, I have not even begun to disintegrate yet!

 

only one more day....

to "Destination Disintegration" at The Altered Page  (great name Seth)

Thought you might enjoy a peek of what I have been brewing up...

 

....good witches really enjoy their science experiments...

 

....and crows

Looking forward to August 1st and the big DisCo reveal

August 1st is fast approaching....say it ain't so!  Will someone please slow this summer down already. August first will also be an art event like none other I have ever participated in.  It is with great honor to be part of Seth Apter's "DisCo crew".  You may remember my other two posts for the Disintegration Collaboration, well on August first I will reveal some art created with the goodies that disintegrated throughout late winter and a long wet spring.  Yes...I still make art!!!  The camera just whines and cries until I pick it up and shoot 200 pictures a day and by then my art time is in the art of answering  a 6 year olds questions! 

Stay tuned!

Disintegration Collaboration Reveal...finally

Betta' late than nevah!  I wanted to reveal my collaboration bundle in May as originally suggested by Seth Apter.  I mean Disintegration Collaboration stems from his brilliant idea after all. But the rain came down, and down and more rain came down.  If I was dry enough out to open my bundle then I was probably at work.  I took it out several times to put in the sun, then came the rain again.  In fact the only reason I am posting this on the 4th of July is because it is almost raining and sort of cold...well for July...Brrrrrrrr!

Yesterday finally was a time for a bit of sun, and time to reveal!

 

I enjoy seeing these 2 before and after shots side by side. 

The opening of this bundle was fascinating.  To see the wrinkled wet pages as a mirrored and preserved in the copper was all I needed to justify the amount of time my bundle disintegrated.

Of course the I was dying to open the hivernation apple filled with the doll head and my rust making goodies.

A tiny flake of mica was on her eye, I noticed in when going through the pictures.  Looks like she is crying to me. 

Just look at all my new art supplies! 

Miss Darina Miroslava says time to get to work and make some art!

Disintegration Collaboration with Seth Aptar

Somebody stop me...no don't.  This is too cool not to do.  I am now participating with Seth Aptar's winter project over at The Altered Page.  If you are not familiar...or have not heard the latest buzz...you might want to start here with Seth's Disintegration Collaboration project and follow his links back.  In a 'nut'-shell, bundle up lots of mixed media from your stash and stick it outside until May 1st then Seth will have more details.  You at least have to go to his blog to see what these fun and fabulous artists from around the world are tossing out...hee hee.

Where to begin....did somebody say nuts?

 

 

Golly I have a lot of stuff, including in the bundle below is some book pages, papers, sheet music, wood, cheese cloth, glass photo plates,utensils, copper,brass door hinge and stuff I can't remember already.  I tied it up with a lot more 'nuts' and copper wire and oh yeah some muslin fabric.

Front:

 

Back:

 

My bike basket was too big for just this one bundle so I scavenged up some metal stuff.  My goal from this project is to at least get some rusty stuff.  So...I had some old clock parts, the clock was on a hanger thing and that fit perfect into a veggie strainer...hmmm...looked sort of like a nose!  Fast forward to PJ girl getting home and us going crazy with the metal.  We tied on several pieces to make wind chimes on the bottom of the basket which now looks like this from a top view

  

There is an apple hanging on the "nose" filled with...well take a look

 

 

I added a secret sprinkle of magic hivernation pollen, shhhh!

It had to have only been in the teens (as in 13 degrees) out when I froze my fingers off  went out to hang "it".  The Pack helped but they have fur! 

This lovely brave gal now needed a name so I went to a random name generator and ticked on Czech for nationality and "Transformer name" for the spirit of it all and a name was given.

Let me introduce to you Miss Darina Miroslava, ready and willing to disintegrate in the name of art!

 

 

(by the way the wind chimes sound lovely and I can see it all from a small floor window in my hive, take a peek)