Nicola's No Ordinary World is made from recycled objects and gourds.: Lights for a Hanging House

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Lights for a Hanging House

Adding More Lights to the Hanging House

Spurred on by my visit to the Modern Art Gallery of Qld to see the display 'We Miss You Magic Land' and the fact that my book is being reviewed at the moment so I am at a loose end and bored I have decided to add more lights to one of my hanging houses. Below is the first house I'm adding more lights to.

Front of My Hanging Gourd House

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No Ordinary World

The world is awash with the refuse of the human race, but what if some of it could be reused?

In years gone by a place of sanctuary was required to hide from the fears infesting the mind. A world of fantasy grew all around comforting the spirit. Then imagination was not enough. It was necessary to touch what was once thought, tread the paths woven in the mind, to feel the essence of one's dreams, to walk through what was no ordinary world.

But how?

With gourds in one hand and decades of casts off from a life of hording in another, order grew. With plastic, string, balloons and more, plants, fungi and creatures appeared beneath the fingers that wove them into existence. Homes appeared, small, delicate and secretive, filled with the waste thrown away by human beings. Layers of life surrounded them. A touch of nature was added. The earthiness of the gourd embodied them with an essence that made one believe that this could all be real.

As stories began to be told through the written word, the models, entwined within, both grew in size, width and depth.

Strangers looked upon a world that was like no other. It was tactile, full of layers, it drew them in and, with their imaginations ablaze they too now wandered the paths that lay before them lost in the innocence of a childhood long since gone.

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Thursday, 11 June 2015

Lights for a Hanging House

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