Monday, August 27, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 6 -- Tiny altars



Some day, I would love to be able to make something like this

Encaustic, book altering and personal shrines. Three of my favourite art forms coming together. I love the nature of these perfect miniature monuments to the self and spirit, tiny meditation altars to focus the love you hold for yourself or another. The form lends mystery, imparted partly by the hidden content behind the cover -- a little box of smouldering potential -- partly by the littleness and intensely personal nature. And the mottled wax, at once ethereal, ephemeral, archival.
Encaustic, book altering and personal shrines. Three of my favourite art forms coming together. I love the nature of these perfect miniature monuments to the self and spirit, tiny meditation altars to focus the love you hold for yourself or another. The form lends mystery, imparted partly by the hidden content behind the cover -- a little box of smouldering potential -- partly by the littleness and intensely personal nature. And the mottled wax, at once ethereal, ephemeral, archival.

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