In bed this morning I got the brilliant idea that I should try to make a giant sphere from grape vines that I could entwine with white lights and put in the front of the house for the holidays. This is what I made instead.
I could not get the vines to form a shape remotely resembling a sphere. I'm not sure I could do it in any season without soaking the vines first but they were more brittle than when I made a wreath in September and were not cooperating. I decided to just go with the shape and this emerged. I had been wanting something to put on the outdoor table since my pot of impatiens died and this was perfect. I thought about buying some gourds for it but it seemed wasteful to get them so late in the season when I'd be wanting greens in a short time. And I had a small pile of stones after raking and tidying up the garden.
Bottom photo shows bricks from Maudslay installation and Ben Kirk's fox from Maudslay.
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My dear friend Bonnie Cohen, a papermaker in SF Bay Area, did in fact make a sphere. Before I knew her or knew who she was, although not before I had seen some of her handmade paper, I went to her house for an event completely unrelated to book arts. When I walked into her living room, there was a sphere, I believe made of grapevines, a little bit larger than a basketball, surround by hundreds of petals/leaves made probably of rice paper. I looked at the book. I looked at Bonnie. I looked back at the book, and then back at Bonnie, and said: That's a book isn't it? She said, Yes. Beginning of a beautiful friendship!
—Cynthia I.
this is perfection...as a collector of rocks and all things twiggy i can't think of a better centerpiece!
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