Tag Archives: Found Art

My Assemblage Pieces in the Hospitalito Exhibition (Show Ended Today)

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Sea Snake
Dancing with the Stars
Sin Lite
Zipped
Beach Madonna 1
Beach Madonna 2
Beach Angel
Seascape
Technology Lurks
Fashionista
Beach Dog
Creche
La Manzanillo Mixed Media
In Balance
Words Found on the Beach
Gifts of the Sea
Sea Bird
Fish and Chips
Perched
Beach Bird 3
Viewers at the Opening
Viewers at the Opening
Exhibitors (I’ll show their work tomorrow.)

Click on photos to enlarge.

These are all assemblage pieces I did in La Manzanilla from objects found on my walks on the beach. They were exhibited in the Hospitalito as part of the San Juan Cosala festival honoring its patron saint, St. John the Baptist. The show will be taken down today, Sunday, June 25.

Bird Weekly Photo Challenge: Birds Beginning with the Letter D.

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This duck came all the way across the lake to see us, hoping for crumbs. Sadly, we had none.
Dilly bird
Dressed-up Detritus Bird

Okay, I cheated a bit. Just no real doves or darters in my photo files. I made these detritus birds out of shells and a fruit crate that washed ashore during past years at the beach. Keeps me out of trouble.

For the Bird Weekly Challenge

Flower-Like, FOTD Jan 31, 2019

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These tiny coral growths on this palm-sized rock I picked up on the beach may not literally be flowers, but perhaps the moss qualifies.  At any rate, they are beautiful and flower-like. Had to share them.

See Cee’s gorgeous hellibore Here.

Orange Blossom, FOTD Dec 8, 2018

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When I saw Gina’s peeled orange with sections removed, I had to stay her hand until I could get this shot.  Doesn’t it look like a gorgeous tropical flower?

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Ferrous Treasures: Odd Ball Challenge, Oct 27, 2018

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Not much to do in a very small Missouri town other than to walk around looking for photos. This is part of this morning’s yield.

For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge.

Nature’s Stagings: FOTD Oct 27, 2018

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Click on any photo to enlarge and view all. These beauties were all found within 20 feet of Forgottenman’s front door in Missouri. Found Art..

For Cee’s FOTD.

Flew the Coop: (Not a) Flower of the Day, July 2, 2017

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Not a flower, but rather a leaf that fell from a branch of a tall tree I didn’t even know was in my front garden.  It is so obscured by the ferns and hibiscus and palms that I’ve never paid attention to it.  I couldn’t resist showing you this “found” sculpture.  Trying to figure how it could have happened.  The leaf that flew the coop, having released its hold on the branch, must be really brittle and have fallen precisely on the sharp points of the fern leaf bundle that hadn’t spread out yet.  Love these chance beauties of nature.

This is for Cee’s Flower Prompt.  You have to see her incredible photo of a rose Here.

Art We Walk On: One Word Photo Challenge, Floor

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I love the found art in my world here in Mexico.  This lovely triptych was found on a vegetable vendor’s concrete floor next to the framers where I went to pick up some framed art work.  How many generations of feet were complicit in creating this lovely collage of colors?


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Finding Art Along the Way: Art Walk Prelude

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These are some of the pieces I’ll be showing in the La Manzanilla Art Walk on January 28.  I have another entire body of work–wall pieces where a part detaches to be worn as a brooch–that I’ll show you in a day or two. These pieces were all made by materials found on the beach at La Manzanilla or La Ribera in Baja:

Click on first image to enlarge all.

Vida del Mar

Off-Kilter

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Off-Kilter

Who cares if your bangs are uneven,
your hem hanging down on the left?
If the picture frame’s a bit off-kilter,
who here would feel most bereft?

Who fusses and dithers whenever
the pizza’s unevenly cleft,
or in the new rug he just purchased,
if the warp is not square with the weft?

When it comes to most talents,
he’s not especially deft.
He has little talent at singing,
and he has neither looks, charm nor heft.

Yet if your smile is crooked,
my dear, I fear you are effed.
for with our friend “Even Steven,”
a mil off is as bad as a theft.

 

The prompt today is “uneven.”