Claudine has a few podcasts on her blog. Her husband gives her a theme and 20 minutes to create a collage. They record the whole thing and edit it into a short podcast where you can hear her thought process and then you can go to her archives to see the art that results. She was originally inspired by the challenges and time restraints on Project Runway.
For her current installment, the theme was "hurt." Grumble. I'm so not interesting in exploring the broken heart, isolated, lonely, wounded theme at the moment, but I let it simmer for several days. And then I gathered what materials I had...
I didn't bring too many supplies for our temporary time in this apartment. But, I was inspired by the jeans that Benjamin had just outgrown (and worn out). This brought to mind skinned knees and patched up clothes... maybe patched up hearts... or broken promises. I had band aids in our little medicine box and I thought that might be interesting. So I took the above picture at 8:58 pm as you can see. I actually started creating at 8:59 pm... which would leave me until 9:19 pm if I were to stick to the 20 minute limit.
Here's where I was at 9:19 pm...
Most of the idea was formed, but not completed.
I took ten more minutes to finish my stitching -- gotta go with the fiber! You can see I rejected the "broken heart" in the upper left. I thought about using the stapler, but I couldn't shove enough of the piece into the little stapler to do anything interesting.
And here is a scan of my final piece titled, "can it be patched."
The 20 minute limit made me feel both energized and a bit wacky. I can see how taking 20 minutes to "warm up" at the start of some studio time could be really helpful. It can definetely draw out some ideas or themes or even just colors and shapes that might not have been originally explored.
You can see all the collages that were submitted to Claudine's challenge here. You'll see fellow Frayed Edge and blogger, Kathy and another Frayed Edge Kate.
5 comments:
Hey! I saw this on Claudine's blog site. You three did very good jobs. I love listening to her thought process and without visual interference, I can really learn alot.
I always keep some small project available to "warm up" before actually starting to work on a big project. Save having to re-do when I make boo-boo's.
I had gone to Claudine's blog site earlier and saw all the pieces sent in....never associating your piece with you on this blog. I need to read people's names more!!!
GREAT JOB!!!
Sometimes with limited supplies we can create more than we think.
I sometimes purposely only use what's on my cutting table to see what I come up with!
I think it is so cute that you and Kate both used band-aids and little boy stuff!!
Isn't it fun - I have done something similar myself and it was a challenge to use a variety of textures and non fibre items in the collage and when you are under a time limit then you don't have time to hesitate.
I love your piece, you're a master at "making it work" Taking what you have and turning it into art. Thanks for the podcast link , I'll be heading over there now.
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