Come On Get Crafty: Drop in the Bucket

After doing some work with all the triangles, I wanted to try some curved lines.

I really liked the shape that I cut from Paltrow's picture, especially with such a substantial block of orange to work with.After I finished this one, it really made me think of a regal retinue of fine ladies for some reason. I mean, all these women are like modern-day royals or courtesans, aristos, "ladies," whatnot. The border around them kinda looks like flames or streaks of light, almost as if they had been painted into a retinue of holy people to whom we should pay homage, like queens or saints. And we kinda do act like that towards celebrities.

But then thinking about this, as I started to add the drops of polish--- mostly to experiment with colors initially, I thought to myself: "if these are the queens and courtesans, well, this is just a drop in the bucket." Because there are so many other celebrities and beautiful women we pay attention to!

And to go off on a bit of a tangent, that word "celebrity" sounds so horrible and unromantic the more and more I use it. It gets right down to the bare-bones of the matter: these are people who are celebrate, whose most defining descriptive element is that people pay attention to them. It doesn't allow them any other attributes. The word lacks the descriptive finesse that something like "queen" (connoting power, wisdom, responsibility, divine right) or "courtesan/courtier" (touching on class, relationships, political and cultural status) or even "artist" (highlighting talent, insight, sacrifice, beauty & philosophy)--- which is essentially (arguably) what they are (these ones anyway) or try to be. I wish sometimes we could use other words to distinguish those celebrities celebrated for specific merits from those whom we just consider "famous-people" whose central focus is the mere banality of "fame."