FAJ Anthology page----Acey's

I've finally secured the design for the first page i will actually be creating! I initially gave everyone 6 months for this project: a--*i* always wait until the last minute and b---now i have a better feel for the participants. One technical  lesson i learned from my first faj (Sea of Electricity) is that it's not necessary to pad/enforce/strengthen the pages so much! I have a piece of work that is only 4 pages doublesided, but that weighs about 4 lbs and is 4" thick! ( I realized also i never posted a pic of the completed piece, so that will be coming as well :} ) It has a lovelyhefty "hand" to it, but looks a little intimidating too. The Anthology pages will not be "armoured" as much!

Since i am now enamoured of the faced dimensional applique pieces i've been working madly on, i decided to explore the use of shape more with this technique. Acey's theme is "Peace Prayers", a hard one to "illustrate" unless you use symbols, in *my* mind at least. I decided to go with the spiral, a natural fractal, and one that has historically represented the cycles of life and  spirituality. Acey is connected intimately with/to her Self and the Earth, so i figured this would be a perfect symbol for her. I'll post pictures of this as well, when i have a bit more to show. At the moment, the main spiral is "floating" on my work table, needles poked in it, beads surrounding it and ephemera clamouring to be included with it. Given my natural propensity to embellish embellish embellish, i am restraining myself a wee bit and listening more to the form than to my Decorating Demons. :} There can  always be another piece that i can go Monkeylove on :}!

Update on Thu, November 30, 2006 at 11:04AM by arlee

And some photos are now in the following entry:

 http://arleebarr.squarespace.com/designjournal/2006/11/30/faj-aceys-page.html

Added an important link to the sidebar----The Velvet Highway, a Canadian Fibre Arts News site, connected to a blog. Check it out, fellow Canuckians!

I like the mystery in this--is it a couple? Male and female or both or neither? Are they fighting, are they aware of each other? Could be quite a story :} http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5236/3041/1600/orangman2.gif