Purple cars go ape was made to fill this space. It was a beautiful cabinet to hold pathology specimens. But as always the powers that be said it was not to remain for health and safety. Grrrrr. So I designed this project where purple cars could use various means to go about their business of climbing between the shelves. It was a take on the Go-Ape Out Bound adventure places I had been to many times with my children. There were some monkeys too hanging off the shelves. I used the box frames for the cars and painted the trees with purple nail varnish that only dried using UV light – shame it never did dry!
I have wanted to get back into dreamcatchers for a while. Lucy continues to give me her parrot (Paulo’s) feathers. I used beads that Nita and others in Jaffa have given me to decorate it. The hoop is covered in alpaca yarn from the Farm in Mitzpe Ramon.
Adri is very good a finding crafting courses for us to go on. We went to a dotty mandala painting workshop in Jaffa with both Israeli and Arab women. There was a really lovely atmosphere. The instructor pre-paints the canvas and draws circles and lines faintly to help the patter. The second 2 I did at home using a purple background.
I decided one day to go mad and take out all my purple acrylic paints and pour and them on this old grey cushion cover. I then directed the paint into spirals on the cover. It is really hard and uncomfortable!
Using the same paint as the cushion I repurposed this ceramic dish. So much nicer. I used PVA glue to “varnish” it. Good job!
