Thursday, October 24, 2013

Bridging The Distance


Since the glass art gift has been presented to the Shikaoi, Japan delegates, I can now post pictures of the project.

There is a lot of significance instilled in this project. The piece on the left represents Stony Plain with an evergreen with a lamp post and it's snowing. The piece in the middle is a larger lamp post signifying that for our friends in Shikaoi, the light will always be lit. The piece on the right represents Shikaoi with the cherry tree and deer antler with red dot (Shikaio's symbol). The blown ornament or friendship ball in the middle represents the friendship between the sister towns. The red "ribbons" signify not only the bridges of Stony Plain, but the bridges that span to the ocean to our friends abroad. There is not only one bridge that connects, but many as there are many friendships that are a result of the two town's sisterhood. The black and red stripe behind the art project is the edge of my light box and it means that I didn't have time to properly set up my photo area before handing the project to the town.

I loved making this project as this was me in total creation. Pretty much everything in this project I had either never done before or not done to this large of scale. Plus, how the heck do I display the pieces so that they are stable and mean something? Thank you bananas.

This year I invented a piece called a "wonderstone". Similar to a worry stone, but I say that there is too much worry in the world so I came up with a wonderstone where one can look at the "stone" with amazement and wonder how or where the colors and designs came from. Basically slow down and take some time for one's self. Each piece is unique and speaks to someone in particular. My plan for these is 1) keep making them, 2) wire-wrap some as pendants and possibly 3) make into rings. What I can say so far is that I don't have many left that are in the picture, thus I had to make more. Such a "tragedy".

Sherri Donohue
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