Collaborations - part 5

Yeah! We had a great day today. Lots of fun silver time and wine time and friend time and sharing time. And during all that we managed to finish our collaboration pieces too.

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Here are the finished pieces - each started by either myself, Angie or Marly, then passed on..and then passed on again....

And of course - part of the process was the naming....so here is each piece described individually......

The piece Marly started, we named "Myriad". It illustrates the myriad of different friends we have in our lives and how different they can all be - yet all join as a single entity in our life.


Angie's piece we named "Trilogy" as it made us think of each of us three and the different life stories they have, but also how they all intersect.



And my piece we named "Anyone can be progressive". We felt the process of collaborating by starting a piece then handing it on was a bit like a progressive dinner where you have appetizer at one person's house, then move to someone else's home for the entree, then have dessert at someone else's. And as "anyone" was involved, it just had to be "anyone can be progressive". And of course - a little double entendre with progressive indicating moving forward, improving, change.....



We reflected on how it felt to start a piece and then pass it on..... it involved a stage of letting go - letting it become what it would and not necessarily what we had in mind...and also a level of trust in each other.

We then had to decide who was going to keep and wear each piece. We decided to number each piece then write the numbers on a piece of paper and throw them down. The piece that landed nearest to each of us, was the one we chose. Strangely enough - we each got the piece we started !!!! But in the end, we each kept a different one and agreed that next time we meet up again, we'll exchange and "progress" to the next piece. So I am now wearing Marly's "Myriad", Angie is wearing "Anyone can be progressive" and Marly is wearing "Trilogy" .

But now the day is over and they've gone.... and it feels sad....but at least I have my momento in "Myriad" - a reminder of the boundless and infinite friendships we have and share.....

So do let us know what you think of our collaborations..........

Collaborations - part 4

Marly and Angie are coming over in about an hour so we can finish off our collaboration pieces.

They are fired but now need polishing and patina and....

So here are the pieces before they went in the kiln.


First in this picture is Marly's collage which I got second and then Angie finished. Marly then add a bail to the top. Second in this picture is Angie's reversible lentil showing the side that Marly finished and then how Angie put the two halves together. (The next photo will show the reverse and what I did to it!). And third piece in this photo is "Anyone" which I started, Angie impailed (!) and Marly made a heart and moon to hang on his wand. They will be assembled after firing.


This picture shows the same pieces again but the other side of Angie's lentil with the little flower that I made.

Hopefully I'll post the final pieces later today.

Collaborations - part 3

Here are the next phases of our collaborations. If you want to look back at how this started - scroll down to Wednesday's blog post.

Here's Marly's collage with a couple of additions my me:


Here's my "anyone" which Angie impailed with a wand in his hands (and tummy!) and a squiggle on his hat and then a loop through his head! Yes, she is cruel!


And here is Angie's split lentil (sounds like a soup!) which Marly chose to decorate one half of. Marly often uses three circles in her designs - and it seems highly appropriate as there were three of us doing our collaboration!

Angie and Marly are coming round tomorrow so we can finish our fired pieces - so look out for tomorrow's blog post to see our progress!

Collaborations - part 2

Following on from yesterday's "collaboration" post, here are some photos of the stage one of our pieces.

This first piece was started by Marly:

It's a collage piece so she made the base and then added on some different textures and then passed it on to me.

I started a piece making "anyone" so he could be added to:

I then passed him on to Angie for the next stage.

Angie started a lentil bead with leaf texture on it - here it is in two parts that were joined at the end:

She passed it on to Marly.

Tomorrow I'll show the next phase so you can see what the second person in the phase contributed! See you then.