provides a treasure trove of practical techniques and ingenious approaches. In this captivating guide, noted artist
Jane Freeman shows readers, step by step, how to use modified kit components, and found and handmade objects to create intensely detailed miniature constructions.
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September 3, 2007
The Artificial End of Summer
A blank azure hammock above the empty city marks the end
of this manmade end-of-summer day. Among the surprises, this
holiday: crepitating crickets sound bushes into countryside;
and countless little infant-stares of floral eyes; and stalking herds
of geese, touring vacant fields. A mid-distance clutch of yellow-
lashed Van Goghs says: Look into any deep brown sworling lens
and smile! while just beyond, a black-and-yellow tug chugs
a beeline for the giant blooms, and disappears in nectar.
Below sits someone on a bench in fading light, half-hidden
in pine and yarrow. Head bent, still as bronze, absorbed in lore
or sorrow, she fails to note those spoils. And yet one more, afar:
a sudden shining sail blade slowly slices through the old facades
of newsprint-dingy factories, the ragged coast of Hoboken
and Jersey City's shore of erstwhile industry.
Posted by Jane on September 3, 2007 6:00 PM
