I loved the theme for Annie's Exquisite Corpse and enjoyed all the conversations with friends and family on the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins. I played around with all kinds of ideas for the sin of greed. Greed seems to be the sin that leads to all other sins, because when we believe that we don't have enough or need more of everything the balance in life disappears. The next inspiration came from Annie's background fabric, a fabric with corn images on a black ground. I wanted to have that fabric as a main component in my square. Then I found the Ibsen quote and it fit so beautifully with the theme of greed and the background fabric.
I found an image of corn and positioned the image under the Ibsen quote and printed it out on silk organza. All I could see of Annie's square was the white handmade paper, so I tried to lighten up my piece and use paper in my square and have it relate to what I could see of Annie's. Still going with the them of greed, I thought it would be humorous to use a dollar bill as an element in the square. I tried all kinds of paper folding, to try and form a husk to go with the corn, but didn't find a good fold. (Oh, I should mention that I did not use real dollar bills, since that is illegal. I scanned a dollar bill and printed it on a light weight paper.) I made extra copies and sent them along to Bev, just in case she wanted them. I folded the "dollar bills" into prairie points, just because I thought it was a humorous nod to greed. (You get it...prairie points....money...Oh, well...The point being money doesn't make us happy. Yes, I guess that was a reach.) Next I took some eyelash yarn to create the corn tassel, just because I had bunches of the stuff in my studio and never used it until the Exquisite Corpse projects.
I didn't take photos of my squares for the Exquisite Corpse during the first round. So thanks to Annie and Sara for the photos you have seen displayed so far.
At another time, I will post some of my other squares created in the exploration of Annie's theme. Hint, I used turnips going along with the corn themed background fabric and the idea of harvesting what we need and not being greedy in what we share.
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2 comments:
This one is really creative too! I love the quote and it was spot on with the theme. And the use of a dollar bill was inspired! I love it!
This was my first square for the ECRR and I missed the mark on making it transition with the joining square. All I could see from Annie's square was the edge of white paper. What I needed to do was pay more attention to her description and use deeper root veggie colors. Also, my square didn't leave much in the way of transition possibilities to future players. My square was too contained with the prairie points.
So, thank you for your positive comments. I liked what I did even though it was so self contained.
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