Jack-O-Lanterns '08

[serafaery]

These are the pumpkins Myrrh and I carved the day after Halloween. There weren't any evil spirits to chase off. We did cute things. Myrrh did the white pumpkins: turtle and birds. I did the big orange pumpkin, a moth, a la the Someday Lounge's "Viva L'arte" logo:









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Hooray Jack-O-Lanterns!

I'm really glad he was up for doing this with me, as I'd purchased the pumpkins and felt bad about not carving them. They went bad almost immediately, but were pretty for a little while.

Why is temporary art so very appealing to me?

I guess because everything is temporary. Everything changes. Even the Mona Lisa will be lost to time one day. I enjoy the tactile reality of that, in gourds, face paint, Burning Man pieces, performance art, candles, doodles, smoke ribbons.... active decay and transformation.

Comments

[ghost-nymph.livejournal.com]

amazing!

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

<3! We had fun. :) Pumpkins are good for carving, yes!

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

SO PRETTY OMG!!!

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Yay thank you! We thought so. Much prettier in person - I kinda want to do more! Next year I guess. :)

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

I envy you guys when it comes to Halloween. Over here it's not really a big deal at all. You see a few kids out trick or treating, but grown ups don't get into it.

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Well, we are some freaky weird grown-ups. I have had to drag people kicking and screaming to carve pumpkins with me. But Myrrh is a more playful type. I think Portlanders are generally more playful (what with the Zombie Walk, and things like Santacon, where a big group of people get drunk and dress up like santa and hand out fucked up presents on the street) - the Pacific NW is very dark and rainy and gloomy always and we gotta figure out how to not kill ourselves somehow. Seattle has one of the highest, if not the highest, suicide and drug overdose rates of any city in the country. The weather is rough! We gotta have fun! Hehe.

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

I think we're plenty playful (we have a zombie walk tooo!) but I don't know, maybe because Halloween is traditionally an autumn thing, all about death and decay? And... yeah, in October it's spring here!

We have the rugby sevens, which is just like Halloween with the dressing up and people walking the streets all day dressed as Rambo or slutty nurses or whatever. But then they all go to a boring stupid rugby game so I'm not into that. The fascinating thing is that people dress up in teams, like you'll see half a dozen Rambos or slutty nurses, all dressed exactly alike. It's very surreal.

Our suicide rate is huge too, but we don't have bad weather to blame for it!

Our election was today. The results are being counted. /o\

[anthalus.livejournal.com]

Why is temporary art so very appealing to me?

I guess because everything is temporary. Everything changes.

And all of life, especially those things that we think we need to hold onto, those things are the most temporary...

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Often yes - it's good practice to let go. :)

[bobsully.livejournal.com]

Very artsy...I like

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Thankyou! We had fun. :) I like yours! Spooky!