I am the Waltrus!

[secondlina]

So, hi everybody...

I really wanted to draw a comic for today, but i'm really dead. Dead Dead Deaders. This bus strike thing in Ottawa is really stretching out my work hours, plus the walks in winter and the general woe that comes with the time of the month... Isa is dead tired.

So instead, I took pictures of the project i'm working on right now. Friends of mine and myself are working on a big quilt. It's a very non-traditional quilt though, and it's super artistic. Everyone in the group is making a few squares for the quilt. Here are mine.

Mine combine sewing, toys and drawing. The theme of the quilt was "Security Blanket". I chose to think of children security blankets (or blankie, if you are intimate) and on how they kinda protect you from harm in your imagination and can become a magic carpet, a tent, a friend... This also taps a little bit in the ideas of children abuse because honestly the statistics for child violence and abuse still frighten me. Once finished the quilt will be expose in Montréal for the art Nuit Blanche event.

Here is my favorite piece. Click on the link for the other pieces.
The animals in them are a wolf, shadows, fish, a bat and (teddy) bears



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I miss painting with watercolors right now. I think i'll try to do some this weekend. AFTER SEEING INKHEART!

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Now that is cute!

I headed to the library today to get my new card ... and came home with a biography of Lewis Carroll in my possession. Damn j00, Isa! *shakes fist and grins*

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Make sure you get a good one. I read a few. Some are good and accurate, but others show him as a playboy (????) and others as a dirty pedophile. Not that i'm saying the pedophile thing is not true (it might be, who the hell knows?) but some books really make him sound like a perverted, lusting, heaving, sweaty nerd.

You can actually read his personal journal. It was published. Pages are missing though (pages claimed to have been lost by the family. It covers up a few issues. Wonder why?)

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

This one is just called "Lewis Carroll: A Biography," by Morton N. Cohen. Have you read that one?

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one with the pedophile theories, thought I think this one shows it as being repressed and he's celibate. Not one of the yucky ones, so you're cool.

It's hard to avoid the pedophile theories, after all, he might have been one. I prefer to think he loved the girls but never acted on it.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's one of the best ones i've read too. Cohen is a scholar, so he's got some evidence to back stuff up. Good book.