A while back I posted this about a new zine by Alicia Caudle at Altered Bits that I had a piece in.
A good friend of mine lives on a wonderful 80 acre farm which is quite perfect in nearly every way . . . except that she has a painfully slow internet connection. The poor girl is understandably reluctant to go to very many sites. I would not want to endure the pain of waiting forever for pages to load. So anyway, she hasn’t been able to see my risque mermaid.
But if you are fortunate enough not to be connected to the internet over a piece of barbed wire spliced into a Cat 5 cable with duck tape and you’d like to see the entire zine which is cool and free it is right here.
So, Judy, here she is just for you! I’m sure it will still take quite a bit of time for this to load so maybe now is a good time to go feed the chickens. ; )
You can’t see by the photos but she is actually a mechanical dancing mermaid that through the magic of Photoshop (and with Alicia’s help) all the connections to make her move have vanished from site! When she moves into her new theater I think her seahorse friends will by then have swam off into the audience to watch the show.
Her hair is made of wild seagrass that was washed upon the shore and her tail is made of reclaimed silk. Her tail will likely look quite different when she is finished.
I love it that there can be two very different pieces from this. Thanks to the digital thing she is captured in this pose with her seahorse friends. And when the automata piece is done I’ll make a video of her dancing.
Alicia said,
March 24, 2009 at 2:52 am
i still mucho love her! she is ever so gorgeous!!!!
wish i could see you by the sea tomorrow, but we’ll still be too far from you. soon though, ‘kay? i’ll come down sans boys, at least for an afternoon that you have free.
thanks for your “modern” help today!
xx
a
sue said,
March 24, 2009 at 2:55 am
Kerin, she is wonderful! Heading over to check out
“Altered Bits”
Jean Van Brederode said,
March 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Looks like those seahorses are in the “catbird seat!” Can’t wait to see a video of her in action!
remnants said,
April 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Yeah I think those seahorses are pretty friendly alright. Maybe a little too friendly. ; )
Gaby Bee said,
March 24, 2009 at 5:17 pm
She is gorgeous, Kerin! I love your creativity.
Gaby xo
remnants said,
April 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Thanks so much Gaby! She was a lot of fun to make but really hard to photograph for some reason.
Judy said,
April 11, 2009 at 3:04 pm
And thanks so much for getting past the really hard and taking photos! Wonderful, beautiful…and the first picture won’t download completely. Time to replace the barbed wire, perhaps. Or the duct tape. I love her sea hair, and the surprised and delighted expression on her face.
Hmm, she looks familiar…
remnants said,
April 16, 2009 at 2:55 am
Hooray! You finally saw her. I’m glad you were able to make it by to take a peek.
So when you’re done with the barbed wire please send it to me and I’ll make something out of it. hehehe