And Sunday’s Tarp is bonny and blithe and good and gay and DONE! Which means I have finally finished fabricating these wonders. The Seven Wonders of the polyvinyl and duck tape world.
Here ’tis, “Treehouses of the Rising Sun”…
Halle-freaking-lujah!
I’m either getting more poetic, or just plain punchy, as I close in on the finish line with the tarps picadas!
“Winter Trees’ Dreams of Spring” is the sixth:
Did you know they made white tarps? Pretty cool.
How about zebra striped duck tape?
Ok, back to work. Six down, one to go!
Five down, two to go. This one is called “Night and Day” for fairly obvious reasons.
Night:
and Day:
I’m hopeful that this tarp’s pink sky is one which brings delight rather than warning. There’s really only so much weather that these wonders can resist.
Here’s a picture of this tarp in my livingroom. I’m looking forward to having that room back for living in. Soon!
“Treefort Blues,” the second tarp I finished in my marathon race to complete these monsters, er,… pieces of ephemeral public art, is the tarp which will grace the cover of the Weekly on March 19th.
Jake Soper of Evermore Prints will photograph the tarp for the Weekly. Jake has done beautiful, meticulous work for Mike and me as well as tons of other artists in Boise, and I know his work on this photo will be great.
Jakes’s a bit worried about glare off that dagnabbed polyvinyl, but as the wise men say, “glare happens.”
Meanwhile I have been given the gift of more time — the tarps will be installed on Friday the 14th, which allows me four more days of breathing room than I had planned on, and believe me, I need them. Every day I do battle with these tarps and duck tape and actually survive to blog about it is a victory that is hard to describe.
Margaret Thatcher said “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” I wonder if she ever duck taped anything. I kind of doubt it. If she had she would know that duck tape actually wins more often than not, so her quote would have been more along the lines of “You may have to fight a battle more than a gazillion times to win it.”
I have proof:
I can only assume these people are smiling because like me they believe that art is worth it.
I’m over the hump. Four are done. Of course I am developing posture Quasimodo would relate to and for some reason the toes on my left foot have gone numb. But it’s all good, right?
This one is called “Granny Squares” and is hard to photograph so you’ll just have to settle for details.
And now I’ve got to limp as fast as I can over to BSPR to hang the Metamorphosis exhibition….
Any minute now.
PHOTO BOOKS
Click the image to see the Tarpestry book
TARPS PICADAS: AN OVERVIEW
Treefort Tarps
