I knew when I decided to do a "Creative Everyday" challenge for myself, that the idea was neither mine nor was it new. I'd heard the phrase many times in the past couple of years. For the hell of it, I decided to google the phrase and see where it would take me. To my sheer delight, it led me to Leah Piken Kolidas blog Creative Everyday. She IS the creator of this challenge and provides encouraging and motivating space for others to be creative everyday--in whatever way being "creative" means to you.
With only a few days left in January (my head is still spinning from this fact), I signed up to be part of this community. Leah offers themes each month that you can use or ignore at your will--with this month's being "body." I chose to interpret this theme through visual representations of plays on words...
fairly self-explanatory...
"Body Language"
This page started as an idea to do "Body of Text" but subconsciously changed to "Body Language" after I stumbled across several old books in various languages that I had purchased ages ago to use for backgrounds. When I put the books under my art table to be packed up, I didn't realize they would find their way into today's art---
"Body Type"
ok--so I am mildly obsessed with the written word as a design element. I can't help it--it just looks cool.
in the same way that the universe directed me to my multi-language books, the measuring tape background paper just happened to be in the mess of stuff on top of my art table and i couldnt resist the symbolism it added--after all, how is it that we harshly judge our body types than with a tape measure??
7 comments:
I like your body work! Very cool.
Very nice!! Collages of sorts?
All your bodies are beautiful and the backgrounds add such depth to your works!!
I was surprised more people didn't play with the word BODY like you and I did.
What a lovely collage work of bodies! Love the way you combine the image with words. Just wonderful!
How I adore these! As an artist whose anchor art is writing - I especially love the WORD ones. Fantastic!!!
Welcome to Creative Every Day!
I really love all of those! the idea of using pieces of paper in different languages really appeals to me and I think the way you did it turned out well. :-)
'body type'... I love it LOL!
I am an avid reader and lover of words and plays on words yet that still took me a second to get :-)
I love your bodies. I can't wait to see more of your artwork!
I love your drawings...they capture the essence of the feminine body -- in such a simple way. And like the others I think the global implication of using different languages as the background text is perfect! Thanks for stopping by my blog and your comments!
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