Sunday, November 23, 2008

a love story


waxed thread through paper over wire, 22.5 x 3 cm together







Yesterday John ate and ate the horrible beef that i cooked up, along with the burnt piece of cake that i baked not from scratch; and i endured his endless one-sided discussion on Superman the first movie that i -almost- could care less about watching but watched anyway...

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I wish that when i was younger, i could have known, understood, that no matter how annoyed or angry they got with one another, my parents would never leave each other.

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Today i started making a bigger than life size spoon. I've also been collecting eggshells and drying baby gourds. Summertime my big bowl of dried grapefruit and orange skins got infested by moth worms and i am left with only a few unharmed pieces. Things decay but i have to remember not to let them collect dust.

It feels strange but good to be back here...Thank You to all who still took the time to say hello and stayed with me even while i was away...
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18 comments

  1. MarjojoNovember 24, 2008 at 11:10 AM

    Hallo, hallo, you’re back! My little blogworld feels more complete now.
    And you’re back with an utterly beguiling Mien-shaped-piece, beautifully linked with your moving words. How important these torn bits of red tape are in the first pic, marks of beauty, markers with function, holder-uppers and light touches, embellishment and prison. The spoons doing a kind of upside-down tightrope-stroll between them, keeping close. They’ve also got their mouths pierced – in the second pic I’m thinking of speaking, or is it leaking? Third pic a beautiful subtle drawing (could see it as an etching) and last one mouths fused and long arms floating trailing, fearless of losing connection. How lucky you and John are!
    So glad you’re back.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM

    Ooh, I love the tape and thread. It's great to see you back, I'd been wondering where you were and what you were up to.

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  3. Bridgette Guerzon MillsNovember 24, 2008 at 5:41 PM

    hi mien! i was just thinking about you the other day for some reason and hoped all was well in your world. :)

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  4. AnonymousNovember 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM

    Your crafts are very zen - clean and minimalistic - in nature. I love it.

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  5. Paula Scott Molokai Girl StudioNovember 25, 2008 at 1:12 AM

    YAY!!!!! You're BACK! I missed seein gyou here in the Red Red Day Blogsphere.
    More spoons too! A double treat! They are fabulous.
    Unconditional love. We all need it as human beings, but as adults, it is hard to stay on course with. Unconditional love makes allowances for those things in life that are petty and irritate us. That is how your parents stayed togeher, I think, through thick and through thin.
    Welcome back!

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  6. AnonymousNovember 25, 2008 at 8:15 AM

    jeepers! it's about time you post something new! have you forgotten that you have friends abroad who miss you like crazy and depend on the lovely lifesucking thing that is the internet to keep up to date on important people back home?

    i suppose i could just email you... hmmm......

    ps. if you need a change of scenery, a new environment for fresh ideas, i hear that japan is pretty amazing...yea especially right now! there's this really awesome girl teaching english at a high school. who knows how long she will stay..so you should definitely try to visit there asap!
    :O)

    miss you!!!

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  7. AnonymousNovember 25, 2008 at 11:33 PM

    missed you so. i don't know you and i STILL missed you like crazy, checking back often to see when you would return to us, our long-lost, but nvere-forgotten artist-goddess............YEAH!! beatuiful, beautiful work, as usual..........thanks for the clean, spare work that resonates MIEN!

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  8. SethNovember 26, 2008 at 12:48 AM

    welcome back! beautiful spoons. love the thread and the red tape!

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  9. JuneNovember 26, 2008 at 3:43 AM

    Someone gave my blog the Butterfly Award and I have passed it on to you because I love your blog. June

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  10. jo horswillNovember 26, 2008 at 5:16 AM

    Hi Mien...love a "love story" and this one is great...

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  11. AnonymousNovember 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM

    Oh, those one-sided conversations! I guess they are just a part of life. I'm glad you still are inspired to do such beautiful work:)

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  12. Ursula AchtenNovember 28, 2008 at 6:40 AM

    oh YES! I'm happy, that you're back, Mien!
    You're love story's all about simply being here!!
    Everything will decay...mmh...better:change...and that's good!

    Hurray!

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  13. gwenNovember 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM

    your work is very beautiful. i'm glad you're back to share more of it with us.

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  14. redcatblackcatNovember 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM

    Yay: you're back, with more of the liveliness and spunk of spoons! And signature scrappy bits of bright-color tape! I missed your thready heady thoughts....

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  15. AnonymousDecember 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM

    how do you know they're in love? is it because they're... spooning???

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  16. AnonymousDecember 11, 2008 at 2:59 AM

    Spooning...hehe...

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  17. Sabine NeumannDecember 11, 2008 at 5:38 AM

    It is as inspiring as always to peep by on your blog. I like the spirit... It ist very transparent, light...

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  18. RoxanaDecember 15, 2008 at 5:51 PM

    "a bigger than life size spoon", how beautiful, Mien!
    and hi :-)

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