The photos only hint at the awesomeness of my Canada Day weekend.
Yuuki visits the breakfast table.
Field strawberries and a horse on Westham Island.
Beautiful skies in Steveston.
Poppies on a side street off Commercial Drive.
Garlic at the Kitsilano Farmers Market.
A view of the water in New Brighton Park Pool.
I hope you had a good weekend too.
The title says it all. I really enjoyed exhibiting my work at Maker Faire this past weekend. I talked to so many people the first day I thought I was going to loose my voice. Sunday was a bit calmer, but just as busy as the day went on.
I had many great conversations with people about books, and was glad to hear “book people” such as librarians love my work. It was a pleasure to hear people stop by and tell me they found my work beautiful. I’m glad what I do inspires people.
This is the set up of my booth at Maker Faire. I’m so glad I had the space to include my paper tree. It hasn’t gotten out much since I made it last November.
Congratulations to the organizers of Maker Faire for such a successful event. They did a terrific job of bringing everything together and having the whole experience run smoothly.
Many thank yous to the friends who stopped by to visit and give me a short break, especially to Kai and Boris for helping with the booth set up and tear down.
Day 14: What to do at the end of a busy weekend
Day 15: Red shoes
Day 17: While the city burned
These are my favorite self portraits from last week. Today I shared number twenty-two which will bring me one portrait closer to the end of this project, which is good because I’m running out of steam.
This coming weekend, June 25th & 26th, I am excited to be taking part in the premier of Maker Faire in Vancouver.
Vancouver Mini Maker Faire is a two-day celebration of making and creating. It’s an all-ages family festival promoting the ethos of DIY on a large scale. I will be on site for the full weekend demonstrating and sharing how to make altered books, and paper cut work.
Due to limitations of space and time at the Faire, I will not be teaching a full workshop but if you bring an old book with you I’d be happy to work one-on-one to demonstrate the techniques I use in creating altered books.
From the Maker Faire web site:
Maker culture grew out of the DIY movement and is based on the principle that ordinary people, given access to knowledge, skills and technology, can and will create extraordinary things. A maker can be any person or group who invents, designs, and/or builds objects or information systems with the goal of learning, teaching, inspiring or improving the state of the world.
Vancouver Mini Maker Faire will take you through an inspiring, energetic and captivating range of exhibits, including workshops, performances, displays, and a speaker series. Some of the features include pyrotechnics, kinetic sculptures, interactive musical installations, and 3d printers that can print themselves. Interaction booths stationed throughout will centre around education: teaching people how to complete a circuit, spin wool, or smoke bacon!
Vancouver Maker Faire
Dates: Saturday June 25th & Sunday June 26th
Hours: 10 am to 5 pm both days
Location: 555 Great Northern Way
Vancouver BC V5T 1E2
Google Map
Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance through eventbrite »
Day 9: Lovely bones
Day 10: Shadows on the wall
Today I will be shooting a self portrait for day fifteen. Time sure flies and here I am already half-way through this thirty day project. Maybe next month I will do a second thirty day project of shooting a portrait a day for a month…
Last night was the opening of the Fairy Tales ReMixed exhibition at Seymour Art Gallery, and we had a really good turn out for the evening. I took at few photos in the gallery shortly before people began to arrive. I’m really pleased with how well all the work hangs together. It’s a really good show.
The exhibition is only one week long, so your last chance to see it is this Sunday June 12th. Come by and meet the artists, watch a puppet show, and have your face painted.
One of the things I do at my part-time job with Foodtree is take photos at the farmers markets. We’re really trying to promote local producers and connect people with where their food comes from. I use the photos to add to the Foodtree database, but also for things like blog posts. I thought I’d share some of the photos here as well.
There are so many beautiful (and yummy) things at the farmers markets. I’m so glad the season is now open.
The previous couple of weeks I’d been getting myself into a very unhappy state of mind. I haven’t been feeling good about myself with many doubts and insecurities eating away at my self-confidence. I’ve also been in a rut creatively since I finished working on the fairy tale altered books. For me, self-confidence and creativity go hand-in-hand.
I think I’m a lot burnt out after a very intense year with too much stress and not enough vacation, and then I started a new part-time job. And while the new part time job is terrific and challenging, it means art and creativity get much less time than I’d like to dedicate to them.
To give myself something good to focus my energy into I decided I needed to get the creative juices flowing and begin a small project. I’ve chosen to do one self portrait a day for the next month. I started shooting a week ago today and I’m already at day 8 of the series.
Day 1: Losing My Head
Day 2: A Moment In The Sun
Day 4: It’s Raining
Click through to flickr to view the rest of the series so far.
Some of the photos have been more creative than others, but it all depends on how much time I have available each day. I’m really enjoying working on this series so far.
I was at Seymour Art Gallery this morning to drop off my work and meet with the other artists. It’s really wonderful to see everyone’s work together after months of working away on our own.
I took a few photos after everyone unwrapped their work. This is one of those rare occasions where I don’t have to hang the show myself and can leave it in the hands of the gallery.
I’m excited to see everything hanging together on the gallery walls tomorrow.
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