GAIL!!!!!!! This post is wonderful - inspiring, instructive, inspirational - just fabulous!
I pick things up all the time - yes, litter, if I'm walking past something that needs putting in the bin, but mostly things that pique my interest to write about. Last week I found a tiny lapis-blue plastic button, and have squirrelled it away to ponder what it's saying to me. It had never occurred to me to make art from my finds, although I do write about them.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful story - and your equally beautiful art. Both are awesome. 😍
Thank you!! 💕 The part about a “lost ticket” was a nod to your post about the return train ticket ephemera you found that one day. LOL! I think when we pick up things like this, we often get an impression of who had possession of it prior. I think it’s called psychometry. And what is divination but a vivid use of an imagination. I try to go with my first impression as I tend to always second guess myself and often suffer for it.
Oh wow, Gail - you've just made my day by telling me that! 😍 And by sheer coincidence, my next post (tomorrow) is about another found item!
Yes yes yes to the impressions we get about the previous possessor of the thing we've found! I find that absolutely fascinating. Psychometry - what a great word - I'm going to have a little explore of that one.
WOW, Gail! I love the art you made here! I wonder if you know the writer David Sedaris? He has become rather famous in his neighborhood for walking and picking up ALL the trash...bags upon bags! It helps him think and write and create as well. What a great way to spend some time...getting exercise, cleaning the environment....AND making new beauty from the shit!
Sedaris is the BEST. And...my Italian grandma taught me to use ALL the words! She had a coffee mug with big black letters, all caps: BULLSHIT. And she had LOTS of colorful expressions...it's our family culture.
GAIL!!!!!!! This post is wonderful - inspiring, instructive, inspirational - just fabulous!
I pick things up all the time - yes, litter, if I'm walking past something that needs putting in the bin, but mostly things that pique my interest to write about. Last week I found a tiny lapis-blue plastic button, and have squirrelled it away to ponder what it's saying to me. It had never occurred to me to make art from my finds, although I do write about them.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful story - and your equally beautiful art. Both are awesome. 😍
Thank you!! 💕 The part about a “lost ticket” was a nod to your post about the return train ticket ephemera you found that one day. LOL! I think when we pick up things like this, we often get an impression of who had possession of it prior. I think it’s called psychometry. And what is divination but a vivid use of an imagination. I try to go with my first impression as I tend to always second guess myself and often suffer for it.
Oh wow, Gail - you've just made my day by telling me that! 😍 And by sheer coincidence, my next post (tomorrow) is about another found item!
Yes yes yes to the impressions we get about the previous possessor of the thing we've found! I find that absolutely fascinating. Psychometry - what a great word - I'm going to have a little explore of that one.
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🤗 I look forward to your next found ephemera post! ❤️
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WOW, Gail! I love the art you made here! I wonder if you know the writer David Sedaris? He has become rather famous in his neighborhood for walking and picking up ALL the trash...bags upon bags! It helps him think and write and create as well. What a great way to spend some time...getting exercise, cleaning the environment....AND making new beauty from the shit!
Yes, I love David Sedaris and his humor!
And I love that someone else is not afraid to use the word “shit” in its entirety.
Thank you for the kudos! 🫶🏼
Sedaris is the BEST. And...my Italian grandma taught me to use ALL the words! She had a coffee mug with big black letters, all caps: BULLSHIT. And she had LOTS of colorful expressions...it's our family culture.
Haha! I always said I know two languages, English and Profanity.
ha! yes, and fluent in both!
I love that you turned the trash into treasure. What a neat idea to create ephemera out of the discarded ephemera 🖤
Yes, it was fun.