Ello!
Saturday! Yay!
I wondered again what to say that is not about my art, to go with my art. I put my small container of scrappy things I've written along the way beside my desk. It is not diary things, just random stuff that at some point as I've cleaned out over the years, I tore out of notebooks or the such to keep and re-read and see if any of it is anything I would want to keep. A time or two I thought I was going to go through all of it and keep or throw out accordingly, but then I gave up pretty fast and went onto other things.
So after I loaded my photos below, I picked up the box and shuffled through a couple of pieces and I found where I wrote the below. I did not write this recently, but now I have no idea how long ago, probably in the last 10 years.
I do remember that I was in a Kmart parking lot when I first saw the seagulls. That store is no longer there.
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"I saw a seagull playing on the wind.
I am nowhere near the ocean.
It caused me to think back some years ago, 30? 25? when all of the sudden seagulls appeared around parking lots.... foraging for food through what shoppers dropped.
I believe that should have been a sign of something, although I have no idea what. Not like a sign from God (or maybe?)..... but a sign that the birds were telling us something... something was wrong with our coast?.. the ocean water?... something?... like the canary in the mine--
Nature picks up on things that we are not used to seeing with our eyes.... or that cannot be seen with our eyes and of which we have not become aware enough to pick up on.
Today I wonder what the seagulls were trying to tell us."
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After I typed the above, I took the two small slips of paper and was about to drop them into the trash basket. I thought as I included the words on these snippets in my posts, I would then throw the papers away, but as my hand hovered over the basket, I hesitated and decided I would take them to my art table and make collage paper out of them instead.
Now back to my wonky art !
A few nights ago, as I was about to close things down at my art table to get ready for bed, I had an idea about something I might want to try. Unfortunately, I forget more ideas than I remember...LOL...I have so many!! So in the last 2 moments, I grabbed this black paper and some scraps that were just lying in front of me and I glued these pieces together so it would remind me of my idea. It worked ! I remembered !
However, the next morning when I went to open the window blinds, it was laying this way on my table and it kind of looked like a face. When I saw it, I said "what are you looking at?" as I carried on to the kitchen to gather my yogurt, water, coffee and other things that would go around with me to my work desk.
That night, when once again it was time to shut down the art table and go to bed, there the reminder still hovered. For the fun of it, I took two sizes of circles that were at the edge of the scrap pile and made eyeballs in various positions and took photos of them. I don't know why I was compelled to do that, but it was fun and funny and so I made a little animation this morning with some of them to share. They still make me grin.
