by ruralpearl | Jun 23, 2009 | News & Events
Today, I turn that age. Just another day really, but I’m using it as a day to officially dedicate myself to some new projects:
1. Today I begin my volunteer ‘work’ for Nature Abounds’ “Watch The Wild” program, where I’ll be observing the natural world outside my back door and recording it, photographing it where appropriate, and sending it to them where they can track patterns and changes over time. If you’re interested in volunteering yourself, visit them online at natureabounds.org.
2. I’m going to be undertaking a small project of large proportions. Or is that a large project of small proportions. Or neither. Just a project that I’m interested in doing, which I’ll be updating about on here when the time is right. It has to do with cut paper and baby animals. What else?!
3. I’m starting on a series of cut paper works for possible inclusion into a supporting display at Crown Center in Kansas City. The theme is “Alice in Wonderland,” which is one of my all-time visual favorites. Included in the display or not, I’m looking forward to cutting out my visions to that storyline.
And now its time for cake.
by ruralpearl | May 13, 2009 | News & Events
Finally! I’ve got some things up for sale at ruralpearl.etsy.com! It’s been a long wait, especially since having lost my hard drive during my move from NY to Kansas… so it goes. We bounce back.. Anyway, there’s a few prints on there now and soon there will be more. Got some things in the workshed rarin’ to go.
by ruralpearl | Feb 27, 2009 | News & Events
Rama over at theportraitparty.blogspot.com has once again hosted a Self Portrait Party. I took part last year with my pseudo-psychedelic self portrait (or whatever.. I actually just like using the words ‘pseudo’ and ‘psychedelic’ 🙂 ) which can be seen HERE.
For this year, I stuck to my paper cutting guns and submitted my self-portrait that I use in the About Me section. You can find it on Rural Pearl HERE, but go over to the portrait party site and check it out along with the others!
by ruralpearl | Feb 18, 2009 | News & Events
Lots of changes happening around Rural Pearl. New look here, and lots of new things to come. Woooo Hoooo!
by ruralpearl | Feb 18, 2008 | News & Events
My “Self-Portrait (Sorta)” is posted at The Self-Portrait Party – a web exhibit hosted by illustrator Rama Hughes. Go check it out, and all the other self-portraits – there’s some really cool stuff on there!!! Thanks Rama!
by ruralpearl | Jan 14, 2008 | News & Events
This year marks the 50th birthday of the Peace Symbol – which was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom – a commercial designer and artist in Britain. Here’s part of the Wikipedia’s entry on it:
“This forked symbol was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally, its use was confined to supporters of that organization. It was later generalised to become an icon of the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain. He had been commissioned by the CND to design a symbol for use at an Easter march to Canterbury Cathedral in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England.
The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters “N” and “D,” standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter “N” is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down “V,” and the letter “D” is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the original design the lines widened at the edge of the circle.
A conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the Second World War, Holtom later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: “I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.” Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbol … ALSO:
Should you be feeling celebratory about this (does this excite you as much as it does me?) and ready to create, submit your own design for the Peace Symbol at http://happybirthdaypeace.com/ . And view their gallery even if you don’t – some really nice work there.
