Crikey! More Angels?!

Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the garden...another "weeping angel" appears. No wonder the stuff on the bar-b-que burned! No one wanted to be out there.

No blinking. Just drinking.
Oh well...

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Lower Bay...Toronto's creepiest station

So, how does one actually spend Victoria Day? By travelling the Bloor-Danforth subway line, of course, just to get the privilege of riding through the elusive "Lower Bay Station". "Lower Bay Station", as you may (or may not) know, is generally unused with the exception of some movie shoots, a Nuit Blanc happening and a film festival party of some sort (don't ask me who or what, as I wasn't exactly invited.).
Anyway, here is some photographic proof of this adventure in transit.
Frightening?! Isn't it?!





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Don't Blink! Don't even think of it!

After this weekends Dr. Who episode ("Flesh and Stone"), I couldn't help myself and had to photograph this angel in a shop window I had passed while strolling in St. Jacobs. I used some weird setting on the old camera phone.

Scary, isn't she?!

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Goggles made of "Washi"

When I saw that Launch Projects had a call for submissions for their "Washi: Remember When...", show, I felt I just needed to take up the challenge. It's all part of the "Washi Birthday Bash" which will take place in Toronto next month to celebrate 1400 years of this fabulous paper.

Now if you've ever had the pleasure of working with Washi, you probably have observed that it's pretty delicate, yet quite strong. Why in the world I decided to create a pair of flyers goggles as part of my piece was definately an exercise in patience and ingenuity. So, using the Washi, some matte medium and, my favorite building material, toilet tube rolls, I embarked on my goggle making.

I finished them up 2 days ago and was so pleased at how they turned out, that I immediately pinned them on the styrofoam head I have hanging around and plopped my flyers hat on top.

Cool. I need to share this.







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Fun with postcards

Here's something fun and mildly distracting. Weavings with postcards. And, as much as I'd like to claim having thought it up, I can't. It was something I learned in the collage class I'm taking and, frankly, it's so brilliant in its simplicity. Anyway, I have dubbed this piece "The Beatles vs. Elvis meet the Quarrymen", as they are all in there. Grin.


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"Nevermore"

Ok. I admit it. I've been pretty lax when it comes to my blogging. It always seems that there is just not enough time in the day lately.
So, I'm going to make it up to you by posting my recent submission to the magazine "Cloth, Paper, Scissors", just to show you I don't spend my days only drinking coffee and checking my social networks.
Titled "Nevermore", it was inspired by a combination of the Edgar Allen Poe poem, "The Raven" (who says "nevermore".) and some photos I shot of a local graveyard (I was there as part of a painting workshop. Really. I'm not a complete ghoul.).






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