I bought a white IKEA frame with space for five pictures – 2 months ago. It’s been sitting empty while I make up my mind over what to put in the slots. There are too many photographs that I love. Perhaps a doodle would suffice in the meantime… Something silly and cartoony, but with a message that I like, and some nature, which I love - flowers perhaps, or feet planted firmly in the ground, barefoot on grass… and something music-related, like a guitar plectrum…
I started to draw with no actual final picture in mind. After doodling the first sketch, I remembered a game we used to play as kids: a sheet of paper folded into three, each folded section was marked ‘Head,’ ‘Body’ and ‘Legs.’
The 1st child would draw the head of any creature, fold it so the others could not see, then pass it to the next child who would draw a body of any creature, fold and pass to the last child who would draw the legs. Each person drawing would not know what the previous sketch was. finally the paper would be unfolded to reveal a strange beast, much to the delight of the kids. We’d then try to name this newly discovered creature and add some odd habits of this specis. An example: Chickenus Zebrelephatis:
So I drew five different parts of a self-cartoon (can’t quite call it a self-portrait!), with the phrase ‘Life is beautiful’ (I wanted to add a ‘SO’ butterfly in the 3rd sketch to make it ‘Life is SO beautiful,’ but forgot to do so – I’ll make one in 3D and stick it on later –> done)
You can tell I like that phrase very much, I use it often to remind myself that we are all so very blessed.
Then I stuck it all together and fastened the frame. It resides in my bedroom for the time being. It looks like I’ve been stretched and chopped into five pieces, but it will do for now, until I’ve decided on the photographs I want to feature in this frame… or until it grows on me :)
Life is beautiful.
Over and out :)
