First, a few more blooms, then some time with my specimen display poem. The idea so far is:
- a white background the size of an amsler grid, covering the “found” word
- the word printed out, the reinforced with card stock, salvaged from free home show tickets Scott received in then mail because of a client
- the reinforced word stuck with a pin, then pinned in the center of the white grid
- a frame created with dark pencil around the white grid
Like different bugs, the words will be of varying sizes. Is this enough? Probably not. I’m sure as I work on it, more ideas will come to me.
I mapped out the words on the 4 pages, then did one, “room,” to test it out.
I tried something different with “life” — I wanted to reference butterflies and how, in the scene from Alice in Wonderland, the caterpillar turns into a butterfly at the end. Not sure it works. I like the idea of referencing orange in all of the poems in some way. Orange is my color these days.
Something is missing with this so far. I’ll keep working on it. Maybe an idea will come to me while I’m working on another bloom? Is it too much orange?