Friday, May 04, 2012
Day 13/100 Millefiori Love Crest
Made these fimo Millefiori Beads while teaching kids a few years back now. A flower garden of love planted in a felt heart shaped crest and wrapped in a blanket stitch of comfort...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Day 6/100 Entangled Love
Day 6 following the maternal baby love beads is this somewhat convoluted peice, entangled love. Beautiful and complicated love.
Day 5/100 Maternal Love
Day 5 feeling earthy and following on from the broody beads I have expanded into a belly bead symbol of baby love.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Day 4/100 Nappy Pin Love
Day Four -today the symbol of love is something broody and maternal - a safety nappy pin.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Day 3/100 Love Blue Bird of Happiness
Day 3 of the 100 and I have branched out symbolically with a Blue Bird of Happiness.
Day 2/100 Love Ring
Day 2 of 100 and I have made a Love Ring with 99 gold beads and 1 clear one ... another classic love symbol
Friday, April 20, 2012
Day 1/100 Love Emoticon
So to begin I offer to the altar of bead behaviour a heart - a universal symbol of affection - an emoticon of love....
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Beads Up!!! New 100 Days Project
I will bind 100 beads together each day.
For the expressed task of repetition over 100 days I will use simple techniques to bind 100 beads together each day. They may remain similar to each other with just the motif or symbol created in the binding changing or they may evolve as daily made objects.
I am facinated with the Zulu customary idea that a love letter should be something which can be adorned - there is a craft industy in my country of origin (South Africa see this link for more info http://www.marques.co.za/clients/zulu/bead.htm ) which has usurped this custom of making adornable bead love letters for touristshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif and brought this idea into a sort of national creative commons.
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I intend to use the method of beads without confining this project to the specific Zulu set of meanings, colours and patterns, instead I will go broad in my exploration of symbol, object or motif. It is the humble bead which will remain constant. I have a bead loom and a variety of glass, wood and other beads. I would like to repeat the idea of using a threading process and binding exactly 100 beads each day in an expression of love. I hope to gained 100 insights into what is seen as love in that time.
To see all of the other artists involved in this 100 Days Project visit the linked web site.
Here I offer you a grape seed to my great bead project. Enjoy!
Come back and visit between 20th April and 28th July for progress.
100x100 Beads of Love
For the expressed task of repetition over 100 days I will use simple techniques to bind 100 beads together each day. They may remain similar to each other with just the motif or symbol created in the binding changing or they may evolve as daily made objects.
I am facinated with the Zulu customary idea that a love letter should be something which can be adorned - there is a craft industy in my country of origin (South Africa see this link for more info http://www.marques.co.za/clients/zulu/bead.htm ) which has usurped this custom of making adornable bead love letters for touristshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif and brought this idea into a sort of national creative commons.
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
I intend to use the method of beads without confining this project to the specific Zulu set of meanings, colours and patterns, instead I will go broad in my exploration of symbol, object or motif. It is the humble bead which will remain constant. I have a bead loom and a variety of glass, wood and other beads. I would like to repeat the idea of using a threading process and binding exactly 100 beads each day in an expression of love. I hope to gained 100 insights into what is seen as love in that time.
To see all of the other artists involved in this 100 Days Project visit the linked web site.
Here I offer you a grape seed to my great bead project. Enjoy!
Come back and visit between 20th April and 28th July for progress.
100x100 Beads of Love
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