MoMA is sending Vincent van GoghÂ’s **The Starry Night** for a visit to the Yale University Art Gallery so I assumed there must be room in the Museum of Modern Art for another celestial piece and got right to work on it.
I read the knots requirement for the Ways to Use It Challenge and started to laugh. I reached into my recycling basket and pulled out the spiral of wire I had twisted into a tangled mess (*knot*, if you will) after it didnÂ’t work out for last weekÂ’s wire challenge. Alexander Caulder must be so posthumously proud of me!
There were lots of comments about the SURREAL aspects of working with Real Red, Regal Rose and So Saffron in the color challenge this week; well, as my theme is Modern Art, shading and subtlety need not apply here. I just jammed them together without introducing them to each other through the requisite little polite layers and hue shifts.
So, the final elements? Well MY Starry night, in keeping with the recycled goodies theme, came from the discarded-ceiling-stars pile from back in the day when our daughters loved creating their own starry nights on their ceilings. The acetate sheet seemed to keep the in-your-face quality intact as a base under the elements. Oh, and I did include a Real Red ribbon knot, just in case Jeanne really meant ribbon (and not knotted trash) for the challenge.
p.s. does anyone know the phone number for the acquisitions dept. at MoMA?
p.p.s. yes, I know IÂ’m not van GoghÂ… but I do drive a Wind*STAR VAN* (bwahahaha)
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 1:39 PM
I just love your story LOL! Your card is superb and really stood out to me in the gallery. I love the acetate background, the wire (I'm sure it was meant for this card), and the ceiling stars which our boys also had in their rooms. Thanks for reminding me of that and the night we put them up there for the first time. To my faves!!!
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 2:33 PM
This so rocks! Dare to be different, cause you can pull it off. Those CC colors were gnarly this week but you embraced them, pulled out the plastic fluorescent stars and went for it. The wire really adds to this, too. Bet LACMA would love this! (Los Angeles Museum)
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