SeventyEight-Punching a Hole in the Sky

This morning I heard a fascinating story on NPR's Weekend Edition about someone I never heard of before. He was a test pilot named Arthur "Kit" Murray and he died last week at the age of 92. I won't go into his whole story as I've provided the link here (and I highly recommend it) but one of the phrases used to describe what he did flying nearly into "outer space" was a beautiful one I also never heard before. Arthur "Kit" Murray punched holes in the sky. In my last (?) photographic tribute to childhood joy I give you two photographs of my favorite subject inspired by that phrase.

SeventyTwo-Firework

One of my favorite people in the project this year is Dorothee Lang. I love her photographs both wholly and the clever little crops she does. Here is my version made with surely less sophisticated equipment and "software".

The Crop

The Original Image

(sadly I don't have the technology to highlight the piece I zoomed in on)



SixtyNine-Pieces

Inspired by Susan Gibb's wonderful story Pieces.

ThirtySix-Robot Love

 

Inspired by Marcus Speh's "Robot Love" and New York state's wonderful bit of legislative news. The red door on the chapel is a tribute to my mom's Episcopal church of which is one of the major religions that (mostly) supports same sex marriage.  The shrinkable plastic part was inspired by the binary gravestone in the lower left of the drawing as Kendra Bartell's last piece from 100 Days 2010. Thank the universe for the interweb and binary to text and vice versa translators! It means, of course, robot love. I didn't intend to use shrinkable plastic, my intention was to stamp it but it was too long to fit how I wanted it to look so the plastic served a practical as well as artistic purpose.

Four-Finding My Inspiration

 

Influences:

Four Babylonias in One

1st Day May 21,2011

Truthfully, I didn't expect my little craft project experiment to have much relevance to the 100 Days project as a whole. I should have known better! I loved the color and the layering of Fred's piece and still can't believe that it was done on an iPad. I loved the carefree nature and attitude of Sabin's philosophy toward this project. Where that second piece comes in to play in this card is through the papers used for the butterflies. I have been on a buying frenzy for the last few weeks as I've been getting into this hobby. After seeing the beauty in the materials on hand of Sabin's first piece I decided before I could go any further I needed to clear up my workspace a little and as I was sorting paper and setting aside scraps I kept finding all these little bits that really couldn't be used for much so I decided before throwing them away to punch a shape from each piece that was big enough. Also, I added a little depth with the one popped up piece inspired by the packing peanuts (?) in Sabin's piece.