After a lot of time on the road and weeks of being away from my studio, it was great to find my way back to art! Today I worked on a small-scale pierced paper piece. I’ve been itching to begin creating work in this medium again, so it was nice to play around a bit.
My goal is to create something similar to this piece, but on a very large-scale. Perhaps 5′ tall.

A few posts back I lied. I said I was done with my mask, but the more I looked at the thing, the less I liked it. So I pulled it from the board it was on, added a tiny bit of blue, got rid of a bunch of the circles and am now much more pleased. I can finally deliver this thing! Phew. I thought I might never be done with it.

In arting up the mask I was given by FCMOA, I considered a person’s life experiences. Each individual act or event is represented by a pierced paper circle. The circles coalesce at the face and begin to drift out, telling the story of one’s life.

I’m nearing the finish on arting up the mask I was given for FCMOA’s Mask fundraiser!  I’m going to need to figure out a good system for supporting the circles morphing off of the head, but I think I’m going to be pretty pleased with it when done.

I’ve decided to take part in the Masks fundraiser hosted by The Fort Collins Museum of Art. This is my first year participating in the event and initially I was a bit perplexed as to what I planned to do with the thing. Thinking more and more that I should experiment with manipulating my pierced paper pieces though, I decided the mask seemed like a great place to try something a bit different. The piece is not yet finished and is a smidge slow going, but it’s giving me some insight as to how I might move forward with the pierced works.

I’m not sure how the week got away from me, but it certainly did. I felt as though I had lots going on with little to show for it. I was able to complete this piece though!. It is another reflection on the flood impact around Fort Collins.