Colony.

New work. I think it is finished but it may not be.

Colony (mixed media - teabags, fabric, paint,  magazine and newspaper cutouts, found objects, drypoint etchings, transferred images on cotton, hand and machine stitching)

Detail

Detail

A Mystery - revealed.

I reworked this piece - adding machine stitching to make it stronger and to reveal the mystery ...

Evoking the mystery (mixed media: tissue and other papers, gauze, found object, drawing, stamping, paint, ink and embroidery threads, hand- and machine stitched)

Unfinished art journal pages.

These have been waiting for a long time to get finished.
But unfortunately they are still unfinished.
That is life.

The next 5 years.

Election day today ... walking to the voting station ...

Will these two vote too?

At the voting station only two parties are "campaigning" outside - the ruling party and the official opposition. I was hoping for more diverse activity outside the station - there are after all some 33 parties on the ballot paper.

The queue move fast - everything well organized.

Almost inside now.

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And soon we will know what will happen and not happen during the next 5 years ...

Sunset.

Taken from our garden - a few days ago.

Travail book.

I made the Travail artist's book (using the profiteri etchings I had printed earlier) for the exhibition, but forgot to post about it.

tra·vail  

(trə-vāl′, trăv′āl′)n.

1. Work, especially when

arduous or involving painful

effort; toil.

2. Tribulation or agony; anguish.

intr.v. tra·vailed, 

tra·vail·ing, tra·vails

1. To work strenuously;

toil.

Quick Drawings.

Our local trains are quite different from ones abroad, I guess. For one thing, we have entertainers on board who do all kinds of stuff, from singing a capella, to making farmyard noises (yes, really), to preaching fire and brimstone. These are usually accompanied by a tin going around for collections.  It can be very interesting, although I have been told that if you take the train regularly, it all becomes a bit much! For another thing, we have hawkers on some trains - selling potato chips, toffees, cold drinks (which they carry around in buckets of ice), second-hand books, plastic toys and so forth. It provides people with a much-needed income.
So on my train trip some weeks ago, I bought this plastic toy - you draw on it with a magnetized pen, and then you can clear the drawing by sweeping the lever across. It has been quite useful for me to practice quick drawings, mostly while watching DVDs ...