the voiceless Fern

After reading a book Flowers and Ferns and Their Haunts  (published 1901) my grandmother purchased from the author Mable Osgood Wright, and then seeing on Karen Hatzigeorgiou's website (karenswhimsy.com) how she excerpts parts of a book's text to make "found poetry," I was inspired to create these postcards using real ferns and some found poetry from the book.

Karen H. makes collage, relinquiries, book-sculptures, shrines, and altered books.

To Go Climb A Tree

My next batch of postcards for exchange involved images printed on Vellum, and I found it very difficult to work with.  Guess they turned out okay.  I really like the shape of trees, especially in the fall and winter.  Now, there's a pink or green haze across the country hills before the popping open of the leaves.  There's no green like new-leaf-green!

Toad du Jour

This little toad was hopping along toward the bird feeder (?) in the middle of the yard.  He seemed exposed to danger until I walked away, then looked back- at first glance I couldn't find him!  Isn't he cute............ 

Daily Bread

Today was bread-baking day.  I like to make a big batch to freeze.  Nine loaves went in (one of them a cinnamon swirl) and eight made it.  (The ninth loaf was underdone, I left it in, walked away, forgot about it.  End of story...)  Oh, the house smells so good!

Scrapbook/Art Journal

Several months ago I decided to express some thoughts with collage.  The "Pain" page was a relief valve after having a very stressful job which took a terrible physical toll.  Fortunately I am moving on with life...

Two More PostCards to Swap

The only trouble with adding 3-D embellishments is packaging and postage prices!

Postcard Fun

I stumbled across a mail art exchange website:  Mail Me Some Art, and decided to make up some post cards to swap with potential new art-pals.  It feels good to get the creative impulses flowing again, also fun to get ideas from newspaper ads!  I'm hoping my mailbox will be inundated with amazing art.