UNDER THE SEA - POEM

I have been extremely industrious today - tidying up my hard drive, getting rid of duplicates etc so the machine will run a little faster and smoother (hopefully, fingers & toes crossed).

So I came across this poem I wrote a few years ago, which was previously published in the ArtErratica zine (issue 3, I think). It's a bit gloomy, but so is the day: grey skies, freezing cold, very misty this morning. This kind of illustrates my mood (wading through tons of files isn't exactly helping...)

Copyright-free photo by Benedikte Deborah Byrkjeland, from Stockvault.net

UNDER THE SEA

Down in the Deeps

Blue gleaming sparkles – sun (remember sun?)

Electric eels ebb and flow

Shocks in the darkness, bolts in the blue

Layers of meaning

Down

Further down

Down to the bottom

Ground down: fine sand

Remains of life lived above, layered on layer

Silt

In the deepest of Deeps

The final full stop

Copyright: Susie Jefferson 2002

I promise the next post will be something more frivolous!

WINTER QUOTATION

Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part
Yet each one holds Summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.

Charles G Slater

WINTER BLUES

As it's now officially Winter... and very nearly Christmas... I thought I'd upload this little gallery of artwork I did in Brenda Renoulf's altered book Winter Blues.















Gel medium and extra glitter, plus torn papers, a torn hole in the page with a spiderweb sewn in over the hole (using fibres and textured wool) plus metal confetti and eyelets.

In hindsight, I wish I had scanned the pic of the little girl; she's fabulous. It was a magazine page I have hoarded for several years, and now can't even remember the mag, or I'd buy it again.


















Brenda had already applied the letters, and allowed me to add my embellishment around them: heavily-applied gesso (using a palette knife) blue glass beads, glitter, Diamond Glaze and more metal confetti.

I got to do the very last spreads for this swap, and also the cover, finishing the book.














The page before the little girl, showing a torn pocket on the left with an ATC tucked inside, and the torn holes with spiderweb effect (darned with wool fibres) plus heavy application of gesso, Diamond Glaze and glitter (and a few eyelets thrown on for luck).


















Closeup of the pocket page without the ATC.


















Front and back views of the ATC, with lots of German Scrap around the edges. The actual artwork is a cheat - I used stickers! (they were so sweet, I couldn't help myself) and glazed with tons of Diamond Glaze ... and yes, more glitter!


















I hope this is putting you in the mood for Christmas!