Tuesday, February 06, 2007

imaginary glory


So, imagine if you will.....

you have a shiny red apple and it is a holy object, an ICON, a thing to be worshipped and revered and placed in the most respectful of places where such reverence will be obvious and discernable....

got that?

good

Now, imagine if you will, being asked to build a structure on which to place said reverential object of iconicism.....

"how wonderful" I hear you say ...

"what an honour"

"so exciting"

The mind boggles does it not....bulging with ideas of shape and oh, the marble and gold and stained glass ......

Imagine, if you will, being asked to do this thing, to build an alter for such a purpose.....



out of bloody newspaper



such is my day.........................




tommorrow I paint

7 comments:

Cyndy said...

tomorrow.....(;0)

Jen said...

Papier mache is made of newspaper...

and...

I got in first...

moooooooo

Michelle said...

I neglected to say that said structure was to be finished in 2 hours......and no other material but newspaper could be used....and it had to be as high as you could possibly make it.....mooooo.ooooooo

Unknown said...

and just what exactly is that little exercise suppose to teach you?

yes, tomorrow...........

i hope you dont have to paint on newspaper......

Jen said...

shit - how the bloody hell are you going to do that??? does it have to be moved or can you just stack them on top of one another and hack to shape??

good luck

Michelle said...

I have done it! Such was my day yesterday stooopids....gosh. I will take a pic and show you my retarded brilliance for sure...did I also neglect to mention that it was a group exercise and four of us (2 of whom were boys with pimples and limited vocabularys)did build a very Inca-an piece of paper structure that was perhaps, a little boring but did work!
I shall be painting on toilet paper as finances do allow for this indeedy dooooooooooooooooo.

Bee said...

yea knew you could do it,,,,