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ICAD Week Two

Another successful week for me in week two of the index-card-a-day challenge:

The prompts were: goggles, macaron, sapphire, palm, tapestry, balcony and thread.  I’m not sure if “macaron” was supposed to be macaroon, the cookie, or macaroni, so that card became a combination of both, plus a new word I learned in the process.  “Macaronic,” ironically, means, “involving or characterized by a mixture of languages…”It also has an obsolete meaning of “mixed or jumbled” according to the 1962 Webster’s Dictionary that I used in the collage.

Normally, I do not advocate the destruction of a book, even to use in a piece of art work.  After all, isn’t writing a form of art?  A book, even though existing in many copies is the art of the author.  I consider the monetary and cultural value of the items that I repurpose.  In the case of this dictionary, the value was about nil, especially since the text block was ripping away from the spine and had some water damage.  In this case, better to rip it up for collage than throw it in the trash.

Check back on Friday this week, as on Thursday, I will be attending an art exhibit that I will review here.