Beauty In Spite Of #3

by Lori Kingston

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Beauty In Spite Of #3

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Lori Kingston

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Mixed Media - Photo Collage

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The picture is titled "Beauty, In Spite Of..." -- because in spite of the dingy wallpaper and the wonky window frame, in spite of the old Formica table, and even in spite of the broken window, someone is making something beautiful, with the vase of flowers.

I made a point of using odd things throughout the picture -- nothing is made with pictures of the actual thing it's supposed to be. For example, the vase the flowers are in is made from photos of roofing nails; the actual flowers are made with photos of sunsets, my daughter's hair and face, and goldfish. The sky is a blue tarp; some of the grass outside the window is children at a school assembly; the "Formica" tabletop is my husband's hair, with fish tank bubbles forming the metal strip around the edge. I also used bubbles for my signature at the bottom.

I used vellum for the windows and decided to have a baseball break through one of the windows, so you can see outside a little better. I used the center of a daisy, turned grayscale, for the baseball, and drew the stitching on with a red marker.

Featured in:
Images That Excite You! - July 20, 2019
Collector's Gallery - October 2, 2019

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July 19th, 2019

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