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Art Assignment 48: Measuring Histories

Art Assignment 48: Measuring Histories https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=4531#theartassignment #DailyJoy

For this assignment, I decided to trace all the places I’ve lived so far. I defined living somewhere as any place where I stayed for more than a month. I don’t consider myself terribly well-traveled at this point but I have lived in some neat places. All of the maps except one are within Canada. Being Canadian and living in Canada…

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Pet Fish

My constructed landscape contains:

Black craft stones from Michael’s,

4 larger stones from the river near my house,

One trimmed branch from my bonsai tree,

3 fish made of craft paper,

3 bamboo skewers and 3 pieces of thread to elevate the fish.

I like the juxtaposition of items from nature with items I purchased and made. I chose my favourite photo to display but I’ve included all the shots I took below so you can see this landscape from all angles.

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    Art Assignment 43: Constructed Landscape https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=4036 #theartassignment #DailyJoy Pet Fish My constructed landscape contains: Black craft stones from Michael's, 4 larger stones from the river near my house,

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Art Assignment 41: Present Perimeter https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=4010 #theartassignment #DailyJoy I call it Pop Up. #theartassignment

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So when we moved into our house, I found this book on one of the basement pantry shelves.

It looks like someone started a recipe book. This book is beautiful and sad. It’s both weathered and unfinished. Check out the gallery below to see the recipes I found inside:

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I wonder who started this recipe journal and why they left it behind when they moved? Did they abandon it or was it forgotten? Does the original owner still wonder where it went? I guess most people in my situation would just throw this book away but I just couldn’t bear to do it. It’s been sitting on the shelf with my other cookbooks since we moved in. Now I have a reason to use it.

Here is my fix for this sad book: I’m going to add my own favourite family recipes into this book.

That already looks much better. I better finish up this post so I can keep adding posts to my new/old recipe book.

For the curious chefs out there, I will be trying one of the original recipes in my next post.

Art Assignment 40: Object Empathy https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=3955 #Theartassignment #DailyJoy So when we moved into our house, I found this book on one of the basement pantry shelves.

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Making my own Art Assignment

Making My Own Art Assignment https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=3346 #theartassignment #DailyJoy

I’ve been watching The Art Assignment on YouTube and completing the assignments. I use being creative as a way to relax and get out of my head. So, I decided that I would make my own art assignment for a change. It all started when I found this jar in the basement: I can’t remember what was in it before, but I wanted to do something creative with it. The smooth glass just looked so inviting. It…

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Art Assignment 33: Surface Test

Art Assignment 33: Surface Test https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=3262 #theartassignment #DailyJoy

I had my purple crayon. Now all I needed was some paper… In my basement I found this weird roll of paper hanging from the beams in the ceiling. I decided to use that. I like the wrinkled, irregular surface of the paper. Detail 1. Detail 2. Detail 3. Detail 4. #theartassignment

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Art Assignment 32: Embarrassing Object https://yearbydesign.wordpress.com/?p=3251 #theartassignment #DailyJoy The stuff in the back of the closet; the stuff that doesn't fit. The things we hang onto even though we don't need them. The negative things we say to ourselves. This is what embarrasses me most. #theartassignment