Chasing Dreams II
I already had the idea stewing in my brain before I even set up to create CDII I wanted to make a series for Chasing Dreams a variety of sizes and styles, forms shapes, but since each piece takes so darn long I am but at two for now. As I was working on this particular piece I was already devising my next one and my next one and so I had three I was working on simultaneously, the new idea being, color coordinating the coils, I had a green one, a red one and a blue all going at the same time as CDII. I finished CDII, then finally finished "Green" and put "Red" and "Blue" on hold as I am working on a relatively large Environmental installation due Feb 27.
What I have discovered from my new twist on things is that color coordinating the coils slows me down considerably for I leave the natural print of the magazine come through and determine the color of the coil... well all the pages are different colors so now I have to wait and make a ton more coils to separate and color code... not fun. I think I'll go back to using the coils as they come and stop waiting and sorting them.
Add to all this the fact that I have to randomly choose strips of paper to create the ring coils, fill some with resin some without, some with added found objects, this process is a grueling one.
Chasing Dreams took an extra long time for I had to stop and create coils to fit the puzzle and because of the various distractions (green, red & blue for one) I calculated it took me three months to puzzle this one...
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