Not with your eyes

Follow the gentleman dressed in red...

Ubi sunt

We've been very busy at the studio today in prepartion for the 3rd Norwich Body Art Festival. I'm still concerned that I won't have enough to offer but I'm determined to do as much as possible in the very short time we have left.

I've been concentrating mainly on making necklaces but I've also made a couple of pairs of earrings, brooches and some corsage-type pins made from miniature ribcages with Bonnie's outstanding glue-gun skills.

The actual necklace is more of a distressed gold colour, with a type of South American (I believe) Jewel Beetle in the center and vial of a very pretty green Lichen attached to the bottom.

This is a small pendant vial with an octopus tentacle inside. It's adorable. Bonnie, being the Taxidermist, has been the one making the individual vials herself and has been lovely enough to let me use some. She's very clever, that one. I'm going to have to put one together for myself because they are just so fucking cute.

This bottle is bigger than the small vials I've been usuing, which I prefer just because you can do a lot more with them. With this one, I filled the bottom with Lichen and half of a rat mandible, which still has intact the front incisor and the tiny molars at the back. Then I glued a small lightbulb into the cork so it hangs in the middle after the cork is placed in.

Small pins for coats, bags ect... With small Thoracic vertibrae and Dragons blood vials.

And miniature ripcage corsage pins, with dried and varnished rose buds and tiny golden shears.

These are just a few examples of the things we've been working on, I really wanted to bring a little symbiosis into my work though I am concerned I may have completely missed the mark. Oh fie! But that said I still really like how it's come together in a purely aesthetic kind of way. And I suppose when the 'big day' comes around we'll find out just how well it's worked out...

I still have a lot to do by way of paintings and prints, I have quite a few things and several more things planned but it seems there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to. And I really want to do it all. Perhaps tomorrow, I will awake to an extra pair of arms and eyes in the back of my head so I can live a double life with a backward me and do 100% more with my time which still, will probably never be enough.

Danse macabre

Just a few small things in the first stages of production. Please excuse the quality.

Dragons blood pendant vial.

Dragons blood and Rose.

 Safflower and Myrhh

 Dragons Blood, Rose, Myrhh.

Only thirtyeight vials left to fill.

Trinkets and tinkering

So, the Norwich Body Art Festival is just over a month away, and as per, I've only just realised this. I'll be hosting a small stall alongside Bonnie Wood of Amore de Mori.com where we'll be offering original art, prints, symbiosis themed t-shirts and trinkets inspired by our adoration of the symbiotic relationships between fauna, flora and fungi, Hoodoo, sacred symbols and 'Memento mori'. It's something i'm actually quite excited about as i'll be trying my hand at making some one-of-a-kind jewelry which is something I've never done before, and within the next few weeks i'll be posting some promo's of the kinds of things we'll have on show.

It should be a super day, a plethora of inky people, a warm atmosphere and of course, we'll most likely be very drunk. Get on it.

Wound

Words like broken bones and bloody teeth.

The Castration of Agdistis

'On one occasion Zeus unwittingly begot by the Earth a superhuman being which was at once man and woman, and was called Agdistis. The gods dreaded it and unmanned it, and from its severed aidoia there grew up an almond-tree'.

An unfortunately contradictory and misconceived creature, left to amateur hands to derogate and disect, and once you've cut it all away we can never touch the stars again.

Come closer, creature

Things have been obtuse, and i've been having these crazy dreams.

I'm almost there, my neck is killing me.