Tag: Creativity
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Another Weekend Project
A few weeks ago … 17 weeks, in fact … I decided to reboot a pre-pandemic weekend project with the sole aim of rebooting my creative drive. My pandemic lockdowns and slowdowns were spent studying, cleaning and organising. My new job was also very focussed on organising things. It felt like I’d forgotten how to…
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Circling Circles
One load of washing done, another in. Shopping done and packed away. With these essentials sorted, I must turn to the dilemma that materialised yesterday. The milk in the fridge needs to be cooked or thrown out, but there is a competing need to start an art piece. A new idea for an art piece…
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Rebooting a weekend project
It’s a new year, but that wasn’t the trigger. The trigger, the light bulb moment, was the red lawn mower sitting in the middle of my dusty backyard. There is a photo in a similar vein, although dustier, from my 2019 weekend project, 12:32pm Saturday. Saturday, 2 February, 2019 “Why not!”, I decided with an…
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Dear Diary
The summer slumber has passed, a couple of months ago now, but projects are stuck in neutral. Work continues it’s dominating influence, and the winter rains have settled in. Excuse me – the new washing machine has just finished attending to the cleaning cloths. The new machine is a larger size so as to better…
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Inspired by Kline
Is it art if the artist (ie me) is only responding to the chosen frame and its intended spot on the wall? I found some $2 dollar frames in the small homewares section of my local supermarket; the black rims attracted my attention amidst a few scented candles, towels and bamboo trays. Back home, I…
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Periphery
I had two choices. I could try again … again … to conquer Monet’s lily pond or take the easier, and rather more colourfully garish, path. I opted for the latter. It was a very functional puzzle, with nothing particularly exacting or overly interesting. However, when it was time to fill in the sections of…
Cherrie Zell 