Wow, well here I am. This is my second blog adventure, but it has been two years so bear with me. Our first class I was trying to take everything in and there was a lot. Much to experiment with and lots of ideas swimming around in my head. Mind you not all of them apply to our class as I am taking two other classes. My words "urban," "mirrored," and curriouser" I chose seemed unrelated to me at first. Then as I was driving home I realized at least for two, Alice through the Looking Glass hit me. So I had a departure point.
Our workshop was awesome and I had either forgotten or never done half of the techniques. It was a treat to have all the materials and equipment to play with as much as I wanted. As the day flew by the ideas I thought at first might be a project for the Happening did not seem to apply so I plunged off in different directions for each of my words. Alice did crop up for mirrored as she existed on both sides of the looking glass as well as her famous "curiouser and curiouser" comment to herself as she felt she was going quite mad. For those of you who have forgotten the tale or never had the opportunity to know Alice this is a good place to ponder her comments:
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the water of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
This was not the way she had remembered from her lessons her tutor gave her, but then nothing in Wonderland was at all like back home.
