Life...The Vivere

Clocks,  Bridges and Nature, Oh My!

February 4, 2014

 

I hope you're well and have had an enjoyable week. What a fun week and weekend I've had... New York City in some balmy weather...sunny and warm(er) than it's been in Central New York!! My cousin and I had tickets to the Metropolitan Opera for a performance of Puccini's MADAM BUTTERFLY. The voices were superb, the costumes and colors vibrant and the story...tragic. Interestingly, they used puppets to represent two children as in the photo below... they were eerily lifelike! The puppeteers were in black in the background.



 
This weeks art challenges were most enjoyable. For example, COLLAGE OBSESSION asked for "bridges" and I didn't get to it until late...so, I'm posting my entries here instead of on the C.O. group site... Since I was in NYC, I looked out of my cousin's window in Brooklyn and this was the picture I saw...I can see both the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges...



then, I remembered an incredible bridge we saw while we were in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam...called a monkey bridge because it seems that only a monkey could make it across. They're typically made of a only a few bamboo logs and one handrail. But, the name really comes from the stooped monkey-like posture people had to maintain when crossing, so as not to plunge into the river below. There aren't many of these bridges left...only in the remotest areas.

The current COLLAGE OBSESSION theme is to create a piece showing one of nature's homes...

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART requested art about Italy. I took one of my many photos and created this... from Venice with love!

Clocks were of interest to the TAKE A WORD challenge blog...

Finally, Flicker's DIGITALMANIA group introduced us to artist Anna Higgie, who does interesting collages. Here's one of hers...

 and here's what she inspired me to create...

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you like what you see...and will stop by again!
Enjoy your week...
 
Big Hugs,
abbyj