Music to my Ears

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What do you get when you cross bad art with a pasta maker?  Apparently something that looks nice on the piano.  This piece started as a card gone wrong.  I had a pretty nice card painted Greek blue that just needed a little extra.  Of course, I couldn't leave well enough alone so I started messing with it.  I completely ruined the card, but I don't know how to throw art away so I just kept covering it over with sheet music, gold paper, and stringy paper--and loads of matte medium.  Then I had this soupy mess that was too thick to use for much of anything.  So always thinking, I put it between wax paper and squashed it through my pasta maker tool.  What came out was better than ravioli.  I loved the way it squished and moved the musical notes and pretty much tore it to shreds.  And I also love how you can still see a hint of the Greek blue.

I'm not always a "theme" person.  I love it when art has a theme, but I think that the bringing together of disparate objects into an aesthetically pleasing creation is enough.  But this time I went with the theme.  I added a gramophone rub-on, and another that happened to say gramophone (love it when that happens).  Then I took some jewelry head-pins and my old rusty round pliers and fashioned a treble clef and a bass clef.  (My musical daughter loves the bling on the bass clef.)  Then the notes just started coming from me like a songbird.  I started to fill the little bottle with musical notes.

"But Mom, you can't tell they are musical notes."

"I don't care; I know they are musical notes."

So I'm not sure if I am going to sell this one--it sure looks nice on the piano.

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