Silly Dude

OK, I said I'd post some photos of the piece I'm working on, so here goes. If you listened to my podcast with Zom, you heard her talk about how pieces go through stages where they just aren't working out, remember? This piece is at that stage. It's simplistic, without direction, ugly, boring, and a waste of time. You can maybe detect a hint of disgust.

 I wanted some dimensional eyes and so made these from felt (wool felt, black) and cheap fleece (white). They are more dimensional than they appear here.

Stamped and then painted over. It should have been heat set, but I didn't think about adding text until after I had it on stretcher bars. Too lazy to take it off. Plus it won't be laundered, I hope.

My job is to get it past that icky stage, which will require something--I don't know what, but something. I like that: my brain needs a challenge, and this will be a good one. How do I take this thing that's like something you could get in a stitch-by-numbers kit at The Dreaded Wal-Mart and make it into something I wouldn't mind having around my house? Well, lots of stitching--I know that much. What else, though, I haven't figure out yet. As my mother would say (although in a different context, one that meant, in her "We'll see" response to a request to do something/get something/buy something, "No"),

"We'll see."

When I stitch, I often have help. I can distract Moe with a sheet of paper. He methodically shreds it and slings the spitty bits all around him and then is happy. You can see I had help this morning. He's on another round of antibiotics and is starting to feel better again.