December 2020 series...

I had fun with my November 2020 series but one thing I had to deal with early on was the temporary aspect of the work.  I never glued any of the leaves down, or made any attempts to preserve the work.  I actually did think about going old skool and I played around with some wax paper in the work...but it just didn't click with me as something I wanted to pursue.

So I ended up with a whole month of work that is only documented in photos, like the one below;

November 1st piece from my leaf series.

This didn't bother me as much as it would have a couple of years ago, I joke about it but my OCPD tendencies can really put me in a corner- one that I create for myself. I have loosened up a bit, and I have played around with the idea of creating work that is not 'permanent' this year in particular.  All of these cutouts that I have been making are documented in photographs rather than one final piece- although I still have most of them and can continue to recreate 'dresses' and play.  I even pushed myself further outside of my comfort zone when I did my temporary jewelry pieces this past May.  Baby steps towards not being quite so rigid.  

So I had 30 pieces from my November series, without the leaves they were just plain fashion figures on paper.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for December, and I also try not to be wasteful...annnnnd my stress level has been kinda high due to the pandemic and a few other things so I decided to 'work smarter not harder' and reuse those pieces from November.

Here is the first piece in the series.  I am going to use different Christmas trees and holiday decor for the 'fabric' this month.  Maybe it will help get this little elf excited about Santa coming to town!

...using that now as my December 1st piece, but I cut out the dress and did some painting.