18.

well hi!

Here's the story:

I began INSPIRATION art this past winter as a means to keep myself occupied in my new surroundings by submerging myself in something that I positively love. For several weeks I stayed true to my objective, which was to create a piece of art inspired by a single image in one week. It must have been mid June when my next assignment was a still from the Michael Jackson's Thriller video and my mind turned off. I walked away and came back to that image so many times hoping something would come to me. Nothing. I set INSPIRATION aside for two months. I almost felt like I was forcing art, which is never a good thing. Two months passed before I got inspired by an Xray sleeve I received at work with an image of the lungs on it. Which leads me to...

materials: wooden frame, paint, textured paper, tulle, jewlery, ink, crackling gloss, key, tape trasfer, colored pencil.

I received the lung image on an xray sleeve at work. At home I cut in between the veins and placed textured paper behind. I drew the heart, lightly colored it red and placed a tape transfer of chinese newspaper over it. I ink stamped the word "ENTRI" (Italian for 'enter') and placed jewelry beads around the lettering and poured crackling gloss in them. I rubbed the frame with a concoction of acrylic gel and acrylic paint of course...adhered the tulle and the key and here we go....now you have the key to my heart.....enter.

*gmb