Airskiff

 I liked the gondola-boat on the previous dirigible idea, and decided to make a larger version as the starting point for this project. The figures are 50 years old, per the 1976 date on the kit box.

    

Dirigible

 A riff on the first dirigibles. Plastic bottles, paperclips, skewers, mylar sheets, old faucet, pilot from the junk-box.                                       

                                       

    

Space Bus

The basic body is a medicine bottle with a triangular cross section, hence the triangle motif. Other bits include shirt buttons, french-fry forks, disposable wooden forks, probiotic vials, and lamp socket parts. Canopy is a trimmed-down piece of plastic blister packaging for a tube of glue. Nice shot included of the Bus cruising past one of Janet's landscape murals.

 

Thing 2

The second of two objects done at the same time. Hairdryer heating coil, headphone speaker, cat toy, assorted screw caps, compact fluorescent bulb base, disposable eyedroppers, masonry wall anchor, power line insulator, laser printer ink bottle, flush valve nut.

 

Thing 1

First of two objects done at the same time. I intended to make one but the ideas weren't cohering as a single composition. Finger-painted plastic spice container, binder clips, disposable yogurt spoons, probiotic vials, Nyquil dose cup, squirt bottle nozzle, milk carton pulltab, pilot from the junkbox.

                                        

 

 

Chola

Near our house, a Chola Cuencana statue. Also farm friends, hard to discern except the just-milked cow. Chola, as used in Ecuador, refers to an acculturating indigenous woman, but not, say, someone living in Amazonia. 

Thespian Kitty

Charlotte preparing for her role in the upcoming feline production of The Handmaid's Tail.