There is something enticing about a cabinet and a shelf.
A collection of life’s fragments arranged and re-configured into some kind of biography that represents a life. Or secrets and dates jumbled into an altered reality that you wish could be true. The epitome of time made visible.
During the Victorian era this was exemplified in the form of wonder cabinets: odds and ends, coins, insects, or shells were arranged in a mysterious tableau for us all to gaze at many years later and build a portrait of the collector in our minds.
I want to do that as a class.
I will provide a simple flat box already constructed with shelves.
You need to bring a collection of materials that are meaningful to you or create objects that would be significant and carefully arrange them on the shelves in a kind of three dimensional collage.
Examples: small eggs, old coins, feathers, doll clothes, shells, bits of old metal crushed by cars, clay figures, keys, marbles, old letters, old photographs, dried flowers, maps, teeth, skulls, bones, string, bee hives, twigs, old toys, tiny dolls, hair, small bottles etc.
Bring any of the above and more….
Beginning in October we ask for a $5 contribution towards the heating cost.
These are individual workshops:
March 29, 2014 – 10 am – 4 pm at Larry’s Studio — Fee: $ 90; material fee for the box (approx 11 x 14): $10
April 8, 2014 – 10 am – 4 pm at Larry’s Studio — Fee: $ 90; material fee for the box (approx 11 x 14): $10
Please contact us HERE to sign up or if you have questions.
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memory box
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memory box detail
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Jen Christian’s Memory Box (BP Dachsie Dog), Fall 2013
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Penny Jerome’s Memory Box, Fall 2013
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Hello,
I would like to register for two classes and am a little less smart today:) My good pal Wendy Lee Lynds will be joining me as well.
Aug. 6th Collage
Aug. 22nd Sketchbook