Earrings
I make earrings out of Lego studs, mostly because I felt it would be a cool tactile earring, and apparently people really like them so I started making more. I attended a craft fair over summer and they were my most popular item.
They are simple, but painstaking to make. I accidentally huffed a lot of the two part glue fumes. I'm also definitely not the first person to think of this, or the last to do it, but its fun and people enjoy them.
They are simple, but painstaking to make. I accidentally huffed a lot of the two part glue fumes. I'm also definitely not the first person to think of this, or the last to do it, but its fun and people enjoy them.
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collage
I find great joy in playing around with collage, using collected paper scraps, stickers, old stamps, etc to explore layout and composition. I do this in the form of greetings cards, and in framed pieces.
For the framed pieces, I like to find second hand frames in charity shops, and become inspired by them. Sometimes frames are just a blank canvas for a piece, and sometimes it becomes part of the piece itself, elevating it with its inclusion. Its truly inspiring the variety of frames you can find second hand, I've found frames I never would have thought to even look for.
My greetings cards were the second best seller at the craft fair, apparently grandmas love a good collage too.
For the framed pieces, I like to find second hand frames in charity shops, and become inspired by them. Sometimes frames are just a blank canvas for a piece, and sometimes it becomes part of the piece itself, elevating it with its inclusion. Its truly inspiring the variety of frames you can find second hand, I've found frames I never would have thought to even look for.
My greetings cards were the second best seller at the craft fair, apparently grandmas love a good collage too.
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I was commissioned to do a collage based on an image of singer Lana Del Rey.
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Lino
Currently these are my two most favourite lino pieces. They're the only larger pieces I've done, the others being used more as stamps than as whole pieces on their own.
The moth over the moon is what inspired the name I use, Ephemeral Creatures. Ephemeral being a fleeting moment, much like the once in a lifetime moment of catching a moth perfectly flying in front of the crescent moon.
The rat wreath is a queer scream in the dark. Not to get preachy, or too deep into queer social theory, but particularly because of the AIDs crisis, bisexual people gained a negative stereotype as spreaders of disease (giving AIDs to the 'good moral straight people' instead of it being left as a 'gay disease') and were seen as these cheating, slimey, two faced evil people. Much as the rats were blamed for the Black Plague when it was the flea's fault, bisexuals are constantly and historically facing abuse and exclusion from straight and gay spaces for things that are not our fault. We keep being kicked from the table that we are entitled to have a voice at. Thus, my love for rats, and my using it as symbolism for bisexuality, embracing a label that was created as a way to hurt us.
The moth over the moon is what inspired the name I use, Ephemeral Creatures. Ephemeral being a fleeting moment, much like the once in a lifetime moment of catching a moth perfectly flying in front of the crescent moon.
The rat wreath is a queer scream in the dark. Not to get preachy, or too deep into queer social theory, but particularly because of the AIDs crisis, bisexual people gained a negative stereotype as spreaders of disease (giving AIDs to the 'good moral straight people' instead of it being left as a 'gay disease') and were seen as these cheating, slimey, two faced evil people. Much as the rats were blamed for the Black Plague when it was the flea's fault, bisexuals are constantly and historically facing abuse and exclusion from straight and gay spaces for things that are not our fault. We keep being kicked from the table that we are entitled to have a voice at. Thus, my love for rats, and my using it as symbolism for bisexuality, embracing a label that was created as a way to hurt us.
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