Birdwoman

Yesterday I got my creative juices flowing with a walk through the Arsenal Center for the Arts Nature in Balance Exhibit.  It's all right outside my studio door.  Here are my two favorites:

Yuya Shiratori, RE: Project

Nicole Colella, Hanging Pods

Feeling inspired, I promptly quasi-destroyed a painting:

Oops.

I felt like it wasn't quite working, so I cut a strip from one side.  And then a little more.  And then I regretted it.  Sort of like a jalapeno pepper in curried beef stew.  (By the way, adding a little half & half to the stew effectively kills the spice.)  So I decided to sew the painting back together, a task which has occupied me for the past two days:

And voila!  DONE.