Monday, December 2, 2019

Ellen and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day


Saturday was not a good day. I got up early, well, not early, but earlier than I usually get up. Friday I nailed the hangers on the frames for the feathers, used the push pins to secure the back board in, and successfully managed to get four of the five feathers glued to the back board. It was late in the day and I put off the last one for the next day. So I got up Saturday and started messing with it before I had even had any coffee yes, I know, big mistake and long story short totally fucked it up and spent the whole day trying to fix  it so I didn't start assembling the heron box which I had planned to do but it's probably a good thing I didn't as I probably would have fucked that up too.

So, because I had let the floors go for too long, too dirty even for the robot mooka to suck up, I decided to do something about it and instead of vacuuming, I decided to sweep to use less electricity to save the planet and in my attempt to get the pile of dirt and dust from the corner made by the leg of the secretary desk and the wall, I managed to knock one of the pieces of our small art collection off the wall and it crashed to the ground at my feet.


It's ceramic and I'm going to try and glue it back together but the pieces are so thin and there are so many and I am heartbroken.

Sunday was better. I got the last feather mounted in it's frame but it was a near thing. I thought for a while that I was going to have to cut a new board for the back. And I got the powder and frit on the last set of snowflakes and they're in the kiln. I was determined to get the bottom slab glued to the bottom of the heron box Sunday but I dithered about it all day until finally it was too late. Do it with epoxy...do it with silicone...do it with epoxy...not sure I have enough epoxy in the double syringe I bought...silicone has its own set of problems. I finally settled on the epoxy and in case I don't have enough I'm going to apply it around the perimeter first and then what's left in the center. And I'm going to do it today! I pretty much have to since set-up is on Thursday. Cross your fingers for me that it all goes smoothly.

Anyway, here are the feathers in their frames. I attached two hanger bars so they could be hung vertically or horizontally, however the buyer prefers, assuming of course that there will be buyers.






     





18 comments:

  1. Oh, Ellen! They're beautiful! I'm so sorry you had such a hard day. But honestly, those feathers are gorgeous.

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  2. OMG! Ellen, the feathers are awesome. They look like the real thing. Days like these, am I right? Just when you have so much you want to accomplish, crap happens.

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  3. I am so sorry about that ceramic piece. That's just heartbreaking. Take a deep breath. The feathers are beautiful and you're going to have buyers. They look really good in those display boxes.

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  4. i'M a buyyer. How much are they, please.

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    1. Hi Mage. wasn't ignoring you. please contact me via email: eellenabbott@gmail.com

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  5. The feathers are amazing! Things break, people die, presidents get impeached, life goes on, but thank you for saving the planet with your broom!

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  6. Gorgeous feathers.

    Isn't there are saying like: break a thing, mend your luck?

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  7. Those feathers make my heart go pitty pat. Not as much as the Book of Wren, which belongs to someone far more wealthy than I, but you know the gist of what we poor artists moan about.
    For a long time I dated a man who collected a lot of art. At a show he dithered and dithered about the most beautiful porcelain bowl. Eventually he went back for it. Eventually he put down his back seats to put in another purchase, forgetting the bowl, which he crushed. A bizillion pieces. He spent one long winter gluing it back together. It was more beautiful. I hope you put yours back together.

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  8. Those feathers should be in the Smithsonian. If I had money I'd hire y'all to cast my stuff.

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  9. The feathers look absolutely beautiful. And what a great idea that they can be hung either way. Why are there days that go awry from the best intentions, I'm so sorry about your ceramic and understand your upset. Hope you manage to piece it back together.

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  10. Those feathers are gorgeous. I'm sorry about that broken piece. Why is it that time stops when we watch things like that heading for disaster? I 've glued some things, with no skill at all. With your abilities, I'm usre you'll be able to rescue it. Did I say those feathers are gorgeous/

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  11. The feathers are gorgeous! It made me tear up that you were heartbroken about your broken art - I hope you can put it back together in a way that's meaningful to you.

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  12. I doubt if you will have any trouble selling those feathers. The harder part will be filling the demand for more feathers! I hate days like those - and I can totally relate. I bet you'll be glad when the show is behind you.

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  13. They are gorgeious of course. Would make an excellent birthday or holiday gift!

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  14. Well, at least at the end of that very bad day, you have a gorgeous collection of feathers to sell. They look amazing. I hope you can save the artwork, but you know, sometimes things just break and that's that. As you said on my post the other day, everything is transient!

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