Or else, what to SAY NEXT?
Things can get multi-tangential; ALL AT ONCE UPON A TIME!!!
Meanwhile, here is aforementioned first DRAGON...I had never even sketched a dragon in my whole lifetime before I decided to take a commission from a collector of several of my creations to make an Earth dragon, and my idea was ultimately inspired by the clouds one dragon-cloudy day...
I love creating magical mystical surrealfairytale-looking imagery deriving from photos of dolls that I have made...for this I composed and superimposed different aspects of four of my original Fashion/Costume dolls - "Sweet French Clothilde", "Spanish Romantic Violinist", "Parisian Lady in an Antique Lace Dress" and "Pirate Tess".
This is a poster of me (Zhenne) and some of the things I have made: a Summer Geisha, an earth dragon, a chic cat doll (Manu), and a chocolatey faux gateau (fabric cake) inside of which are nestled 16 sweet handsewn chocolates. The geisha, the dragon, and the chic cat doll were special commissions
In December of 2003, I was inspired by a deerprint panel of fleece to make this winter coatdress and hat...in this picture, it is being worn backwards.
On the last day of July in 2001, I decided to put away needle and thread for the entire month of August and just draw spontaneously everyday. A friend had given me a rich amount of archival museum-quality ragboard...I got out my oil pastels and began drawing without any preconceived idea of what the image would be. I drew everyday and into the night. My intention was not to make art but to engage in a kind of wordless journaling. It was a real journey...buffalo and waterfalls and portraits of imaginary men and women and trees and treasure-maps and boats and human hearts and this bird saint.
Besides their infrasounds moving along on concrete or rock? Two times in my life I have been surprized by a turtle...once as a child I went out my front door and there in the middle of the street, no cars anywhere - was walking along a very very large turtle!
early this month, sitting outside with a neighbor - happenstancely both there at the same time with our coffee in hand and waking up in mind, I turned and saw a turtle approaching!
As it turns out - the turtle (actually tortoise) went out its keeper's door, walked along the walkway til it got to the many stairs which it successfully descended, made its further way to the parking lot, actually traversed the large parking lot and then came walking into our courtyard...
So, do turtles ever vocalize?
I have always been in awe of clouds, and the images that seem to appear and morph as they move along - fast or slow. This is my digital photograph of a cloud formation one day. All I did to this photo was adjust levels and rotate 90 degrees and then I saw something...do you see what I see?
MY QUESTION TO YOU< DEAR VISITOR TO ZHENNELAND>IS:
In May of 1985, I was a passenger in a car on the way to a wedding. I took a polaroid of myself. In 2006, I scanned the polaroid and superimposed my beautiful cat Quin's eyes with my own. It was a perfect match.
I created this image as a card design working from a photograph of Quinn and photographs I have taken of fabric. It reminds me of Russian Fairytales or the magically beautiful illustrations of Adrienne Segur - one of my earliest childhood inspirations. If you look at the lists of my favorite books, you will find links to two of her incredibly mystically beautifully illustrated fairytale books which I had as a child.
For now I am just posting this picture.
To read more about the mysteries of this, google search "heart is a brain".
How I made this image - I took a lot of papers that I had and rather than shredding them, I boiled them and pressed them into a heart-shaped cake pan. After it dried, I painted it with red and gold paint. Then I took a photograph of it on concrete with a digital camera, and then working from the resulting image, I arrived at this image. The whole process was truly catheartic. I will write more about this subject of Heart Brain later...now I must get back to my art.
Just one little thought occurs to me in this moment...perhaps it seems we only use 10% of our brain because we only use 10% of our heart.
Thank You!
