evening leaf tag

I was supposed to be writing a paper based on Erikson's psychosocial stages of development and instead I accidentally took a two hour nap that felt like (and was only supposed to be) 20 minutes and left me with a raunchy taste in my mouth. I got dressed, look surprisingly fashionable (I have a sleek light blue ensemble going on), grabbed my camera, and walked across the street to the park.

On the way I saw at one end of the park a car running with its lights on and a person sleeping very deeply (head back, mouth open, slouched over) in the driver's seat. I thought they might be dead. I stopped and stared at them and couldn't bring myself to get closer to see if they were really just sleeping. I wondered if they'd run a hose from the exhaust to the inside and killed themselves. I was still half-asleep and felt confused.

At the other end of the park was a kissing couple. I couldn't go make a tag by the kissing couple even though all the good pretty leaves seemed to be over there. I felt so confused. What had happened out here while I'd slept?

I started to make this tag hanging down from the leaves attached to the tree. I wanted to make several streams of leaf chains dangling. I am not Andy Goldsworthy and couldn't pull it off. Before it got too dark I just strung a few together on the ground.

And here's just a close up of the more intricate end:Back to Erikson and brushing my teeth.

mask 4

mask 2

I've been hasty about both masks. I make them in a flurry. You can even see the glue on my chin under the leaf in this one because I didn't wait for it to dry and it peeled off some. There's something I like about the speed; they are as temporary as I can possibly make them. And yet, I want to make myself pay more attention to them and make that attention manifest into self-attention.

mask 1

I'd been thinking about painting my face. Then I came home and did this. It is the beginning of something. Stay posted.

eucaliptus alpha

Eucaliptus leaves are fantastic to work with. This is my new medium.