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)
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 GMT Views: 1158
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:06 PM
If this doesnt make the Museum of Natural Arts, you just call me, girl and I'll handle all the details. but of course, if that doesnt work, just write them a letter, or better yet copy your description and send that in: That and this card will surely get your VanGogh on the first floor to the left! Great card and an equally great commentary!
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I love it! Great use of your trash - you should see what my 7 yo dd makes from my scrap container!
I'm loving your acetate base - now I'm going to have to look for some!