WHETHER WEATHER?

Since we weren’t able to create our group collage at our May meeting, we pulled out the supplies and gave it a shot last Friday. Our theme was “weather”, so we each came up with symbols and ideas that relate to the theme. The original thought of the clouds failed miserably due to the lack of cooperation of the spray foam. Thinking that the stuff was easier to manipulate once it’s sprayed, it proved us wrong and was obviously NOT manipulatable at all. When we realized the clouds weren’t going to smooth out and expand like we’d hoped, the next thought was to turn them into the landscape of Mars by spray-painting them red. Again…….. the idea and the result were not in sync and the non-clouds look nothing like Mars either!

Alex and Terence worked on individual sunshines while Chris put together a collage of pictures and words representing thoughts about weather (Mood, Warm, Tropical, Beach). While Terence used paint for his Angry, Cancer-loving sunshine, Alex cut different shades and shapes of yellow from magazines to piece together in creating his sunshine. Using the same technique, Alex also came up with a funky blue storm cloud.

Being that I’ve never tapped into any hidden artistic skills of my own, I spent the time labeling every weather word I could think of. I also came up with the copper rain-drop (thanks for the copper shavings David!).

John and Ed both tossed out a couple of thoughts regarding the weather collage (not necessarily encouraging thoughts -- Mr. Sarcasm John -- but thoughts none-the-less). As movie buffs, they spent a lot of the meeting discussing several films and some side notes that they’re both interested in.

Join us for our next meeting on June 29th when we'll be hosting an open mic for Poetry or Short Stories. Share your own work -- or bring in a favorite to read aloud to the group.