They don’t look
like much do they?
The challenge
was to make two pieces each with a smooth surface and waved (and longer) at one
end and circular (and much shorter) at the other. Each strip of foamcore is
tapered and many have to also be twisted to create an object that can
stand-alone — and holds it's shape. Do I sound proud?
It took all day
— and a long day — Friday to build them. (Beth was chilling and then went to
her writers’ conference that continues today.) I worked so hard cutting the
foamcore strips my hands keep cramping up something fierce. What you see is
plan B; Plan A was a disaster.
One of these pieces
will be the front half and the other will be the back half of the dress and
both pieces will have words carved into them. There are two more pieces to
build: the top front and back. But I have to complete and fuse these pieces
before I can build the tops.
Next I plan to
coat these pieces in paper pulp to get the surface I want. Then the words have
to be carved into the whole piece once it’s assembled, surfaced and any
colour(s) I might want are added. I make decisions as I go.
When I do this
work, my arms and hands work like yours do. We don’t even think about it; we
all work with our hands all the time. But for me, this is wonderful because for
much of the time I am not working or at rest, my arms and hands are subject to
myoclonic movement.
An important
word in my vocabulary since my breakdown is “myoclonic.” My staccato breathing,
seizures and my jerking arms are all myoclonic in origin. Myoclonus is not a
disease. It’s a symptom of neurological “disorder.”
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