A big part of Steampunk is the background layer, It should be all ‘painterly and lots of texture.
With this page, I decided to do Birds on a Wire.
I started with a page I had smeared gold paint on from an earlier project. Then I pasted down an ink splotched sky, used some of my DIY Washi Tape to pin the bottom in place. I added a little framed post card that came in a pack from a Scrapbook store I stopped in just to visit (NOT!!!).
Next, I drew three little birds on corrugated cardboard and glued them down. Next was to work around it all to do some texture stamping. (Of course, I did not plan ahead).
This page had a complex theme in that there are three things going on. In the bottom right you see a person, a blackboard, a check mark and an x. This speaks to my career in many far North (typically isolated fly-in communities) . The lady on the left represents who I was during summers... and the birds? The birds represent how I fly in and out of those communities, and they represent that wish and hope and dreams that summers would be fulfilling. Notice that cage? It is empty. I always refused to feel the isolation, to feel trapped/caged in isolation for ten months with few fly-outs except grocery and appointment runs which was a quick fly out and fly back in. The epiphany in this page, for me, was that I realize, these restrictions are not entirely different from those months so far up north that I was there and there I be. I learned to deal with isolation..., maybe it is why I am at peace with these covid restrictions we have now.
How are you dealing with the restrictions? With the isolation of being behind a mask. I miss smiles. I miss the banter at the check-out line. Everyone is so serious now. I move to my art to comfort self.
©Carol Desjarlais 5.5.21
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