found treasures...

with an impending move i've got to be motivated to pack a little every day after work. which really means go through my crap, be strong and say goodbye.

even though it's time consuming to go through things, 1) it's fun to see what's been hidden since the last move and 2) it saves me from moving it yet again. 

a few things i've "discovered" so far... two decks of lotera cards and their bingo like larger cards for marking. four different colored filters for my nikon slr, red 25, orange 21, yellow 2 and sepia 2. a plethera of postcard books. small packets of stationary and the "just a gesture for those that don't deserve the effort" greeting cards. which are quite hilarious. you circle which occasion the receiver is celebrating for instance, a birthday. underneath the type of celebration are a bunch of numbers. it is up to the recipient to connect all the number and viola! they've created a connect-the-dot image. wow, been missing that!

continuing on with items i'm happy to have found again are what i will be sharing in the images below... the most special? important? is how i started sewing on paper to begin with. the polaroid transfer (and photo) quilt. then i've got some cards that came from the quilt, cards that are just polaroid transfers or cards with just random images on them... 

they've been found! WOW who knew i actually had sewn cards in house... ha ha.

oh geez, those are lovely. i loved the shapes i found in the transfers that didn't work. ahhh finally abstractions with photo images!

obviously these cards are not from the transfer photo quilt or necessarily the same time. i really like the t-shirt.

in the beginning...

i'm not one for words about pieces of artworks. or explaining in great details. i'm sewing cards. working on a special project. however, this is really where it all started. the polaroid transfer "quilt". transfers of photo images i'd taken. then i started to add actual photos. i was working on a couple different ideas when i started sewing this "quilt". eventually, i wanted to incorporate some targets that i had bought. 

however, when i was thinking about how i wanted this piece to end up looking, i didn't like where the target pieces were being put in or would be put in. so naturally, i got out my trusty seam riper and took it all apart. 

i never put it back the way i wanted. instead, i had a stack of transfers and started sewing on them. making cards for friends. viola! i sew paper.

the targets were part of a series too and a continual theme. women, body image and marketing. we are targets to what advertisers put out there for us to see. targets how women are depicted in advertisements, movies, even how we are viewed by our community of friends and strangers. 
this was around 2003. living in seattle. now 2010 living in portland. still interested in sewing on paper and thinking about being targeted.