The August creativity prompt from A Creative Dream was "Transition...." I did a little word play and came up with a bad anagram, but it triggered an idea for me.
I've been wanting to try making some "erosion bundles" or "disintegrations" as described in the May/June issue of "Cloth, Paper, Scissors." There was a great article by Seth Apter that describes his techniques and the collaboration project that he started and called DisCo for short. Bundles of every kind of material imaginable were hung or buried to be eroded by the elements of nature over a period of months. When the material has decomposed to an interesting point, the bundles are brought in and the materials are used in works of art. Doesn't this sound like fun? And a "transition" takes place as the materials are gradually eroded by Mother Nature and then used by the artist. ere are the bundles I put together and hung from my deck last week.
Included in the bundles are: pages torn from an old dictionary and other books, magazine pages, plain cover stock and art papers, watercolor paper scraps that I had tested the paint colors on, a paper towel that had watercolor paints on it, plain cardboard, acrylic-painted cardboard, yarn, ribbon, raffia, some metal things that will rust, e.g. nails, paper clips, a couple of black and white photographs, a couple of hardback book covers and a few other things. On the edges of some of the pages, I smeared on some Neocolor II water soluble wax crayons.
Midway through putting my bundles together, I misplaced the magazine with directions, so I forgot some of the steps, like putting a brad through the middle of all of the pages to hold them together. Oops. But I did use wire to wrap the bundles and I think they will hold together long enough without the brads. Oh, and one of my bundles is bound with a piece of muslin cloth. That should help it get nice and wet and probably mouldy if I leave it out long enough.
Now if we could just get some rain.....
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