Finally (!) I completed a piece that began as mail art. It was initiated by Jessica, another MFA student at Goddard, when she sent me a packet of collage materials. She sent papers, buttons and a solargraphics image she did using herbs, plus a blank paper for me to try. I made a small collage to return to her, but I lingered on just what to do with the blue paper and the "sister images." I had been working with natural materials and mini-Zen gardens as interactive collages. I used dried poppy seed pods for my sun paper experiment. To make this a complete work, I wanted to combine both images somehow. The final assemblage uses sheer ribbon, a blue-and-gold painted cedar branch, a brass bell, wool roving for stuffing the images like a "pillow," gold-painted poppy pods, gold thread, clear glitter glue and spiral wrapped brass wire.
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