Last week I had the fun privilege of leading a found poem/mixed media workshop here in Beaufort, at Coastal Art Supply (Thanks, Jennifer!). Among the folks around the table were three mother-daughter pairs. How fun!
One of these included my friend Jill and her amazing teenager, Sierra, also a friend of mine. I'm delighted that Sierra said I could share her work; she came up with such a lovely piece. I gave participants a choice of two kinds of mid-century Edu-cards as their inspiration and "substrate" (surface to create on). They could pick one about shells or one about butterflies, and then I supplied some vintage bookplates and postage stamps for cutting up and collaging, and bits of bling in the form of brass stampings.
Seeing Sierra's creation here, you won't be suprised to learn she's quite creative and is a talented photographer. What an eye! I love the way her color choices and composition make this found poem come to life, in a silvery, magical way.
The words read:
WONDER
grace beauty perfect
strange
oriental
But, let's stop and think. Maybe it is
a builder
for
ideas
©Sierra W.
"Wonder" as "a builder for ideas" - that is just brilliant!
Would you like to see more? Click here for workshop highlights and more examples over at my artsyletters blog.
My Authors Guild site here just migrated to new software Thursday. I'm still figuring out, but it seems to be pretty smooth. Migrate yourself on over to My Juicy Little Universe, where the ever-wonderful Heidi is going to help usher in Poetry Month, and this year's Progressive Poem!
(PS - Once again, Jama is rounding up Kidlit National Poetry Month blog events over at Jama's Alphabet Soup!)
[Fri. a.m. Note - I'm having a little challenge trying to respond to comments from my end... it's only semi-working, but I've emailed the Cavalry, so they should help me straighten out. Thanks! EVENING UPDATE - Apologies if you had trouble trying to leave comments as well. The AG Cavalry did come to the rescue, and they got it fixed during the day Friday.]