trickster?
Marja-Leena | 04/04/2011 | 8 comments
themes: Folk Legends & Myths, Found Objects, Photoworks
the pencil cup
Do you keep a cup or mug on your desk to hold your pens and pencils? Next to this computer is a desk lamp with a heavy indented base which holds my 'stuff'. This evening I had the urge... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 24/11/2010 | 10 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, Photoworks
embedded
Marja-Leena | 29/09/2010 | 13 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
leaf lace
a finely delicate, yet strong, lace-like skeleton of a magnolia leaf.... ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 27/01/2010 | 7 comments
themes: Found Objects, Nature, Photoworks
treasure hunt
Found on an 'archeological' dig in the backyard, what stories lay beneath encrusted dirt and rust? ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 02/07/2009 | 6 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
the butter dish
Or, the ex-butter dish. I still have the little pitcher. Both were made by a local potter long ago and were gifts from my husband. Other 'breaks' featured on these pages (this is getting embarrassing): a... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 01/03/2009 | 20 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
enmeshed
Added later: scanned onion skins... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 26/02/2009 | 13 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
broken bowl
Other breaks: another broken bowl reflections in broken glass broken glass ornament ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 27/01/2009 | 9 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
broken glass
decorated the tree this evening another glass ornament fell to pieces first decorations from our first Christmas becoming fewer each year... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 16/12/2008 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, Photoworks
wings
Allow me a little self-congratulatory pat on the back - qarrtsiluni has my photo Wings up! And I'm told that this is my tenth publication in it, and that you can see all of them here. qarrtsiluni's current... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 21/11/2008 | 14 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, Photoworks
poetry postcards
I'm delighted to share with you that Tom Montag and I have had our collaboration Blue accepted and up at Postal Poetry, an exciting new site for individually and collaboratively created poetry postcards. Tom has already expressed his... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 01/09/2008 | 4 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Blogging, Found Objects, Photoworks
an English-Finnish dictionary
an immigrant's tool, an almost-bible, a book of days...
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 29/07/2008 | 25 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, History, Linguistics, Photoworks
mesh
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 29/04/2008 | 2 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
rust circle
Years ago an artist friend gave me this circular, rusted, thin metal object. She had found it in a farmer's field in France. I love how this man-made object, probably a part from some farm machinery, had begun... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 11/04/2008 | 7 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
CARcass on shore
Marja-Leena | 03/03/2008 | 9 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
broken
"It is a dying lamp, a falling shower,
A breaking billow: - even whilst we speak
Is it not broken?"
Marja-Leena | 15/08/2007 | 13 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks, Recently
experiment no.4
This is becoming a mini series of playful experiments!
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 29/07/2007 | 7 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks, Recently
experiment no.3
continuing play with materials and textures
still not sure where these are going
Marja-Leena | 20/07/2007 | 7 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photography, Photoworks, Recently
experiment no.2
another exploration of a tentative idea
see also experiment no.1
Marja-Leena | 02/07/2007 | 4 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, Photography, Photoworks, Recently
experiment no.1
playing around with various images
not sure where these are going yet
here's the first one in early formation
Marja-Leena | 20/06/2007 | 8 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Found Objects, Photoworks, Recently