"Home Bird" and "Home Camel"

 "Home Bird" and "Home Camel"
These 2 smalls were made using tiny wooden boxes I found at the flea market.  I have never worked in such a small format before, and besides the obvious challenges, I must say, I love the results.
     "Home Bird"● is contained inside a tiny mahogany box (3"x3"). The hand carved embellishment is the roof of a vintage cuckoo clock I took apart last summer (see Edna). A small ceramic bird sits a top an amber colored crystal, while looking over the metal house in the corner. A brass bell on the side adds interest and noise.
    "Home Camel"● this mahogany box (2" x 4") is embellished with wooden wings and a brass bell on the outside.  Inside the box, a tiny camel patiently waits by the house ready for flight.
     Both are ready to hang. (click on any image to enlarge)

"Seeing Red"

"Seeing Red"●
   This glass enclosed memory box was so much fun to make.  I started by covering it on the inside and outside in tissue papers.  The found objects contained within the box sort of 'selected' themselves.  The placement of each item seemed instinctive and effortless, each piece found it’s place within the space that contains it and there it stayed, because it looked good.
   At the end of the day, once the piece was finished, as I was closing up my studio to go home, I remember briefly thinking about what to name the piece.  The next day, the minute I opened the door to my studio, and without having given it another thought, I saw the piece and found that even the title was self administered . . . (click on any image to enlarge)