I only have myself to blame.
I should be more wealthy and live in a bigger apartment, or better yet, I should have a huge studio, or better yet, I should run a storage facility as my side gig and have ALL THE SPACE I NEED.
Well, those things are not happening. So I sit in my apartment, creating the coral vignettes, getting ready for the upcoming window installation at Footwise in Corvallis on March 1st, and having no space to exist that isn’t covered with corals or critters.
And the upside of this? I am not in possession of all of the corals and critters. It is even bigger than all I survey.
The big difference, from what I can tell, compared to other fiber art coral reefs is that this one is being built piece by piece with vignettes that we are going to slot together once we are building the reef. I have seen other reefs that are built in situ with chicken wire and large forms and have a large group of volunteers over many days to put it all together. These aren’t the conditions that we are operating under. We need to be much more economical with our time and the amount of hands that will be helping.
All that to say, here is a little taste of the vignettes from the past few weeks.
