hunger 4 you

"hunger 4 you"
mixed media sculpture
(linen, wood, wire, glass bead, paper ephemera)

A few weeks ago I responded to a post on Craigslist – someone in my neighborhood was giving away a bunch of scraps of wood.  I went over there one evening after putting the kids to bed and got a lot of great stuff. 

The idea for this piece began when I painted one of the wood blocks light blue and it just sort of grew from there.  I wanted to do another one with the bird alighting and I love this image of the hungry hungry baby bird looking up blindly for food.  It so reminds me of those early days of nursing a baby when they just close their eyes and cry for you to put the nipple in their mouths. 

We have been going through a bit of an adjustment here because Roxanne has now nearly lost her afternoon nap.  Which means I get to spend lovely one-on-one time with her doing all the things that are so difficult to do when the baby is awake – like playing Go Fish and making things out of modeling clay and baking together.  But it also means that I have lost my naptime crafting time.  Gosh.  This blog is now officially a misnomer. 

She goes to bed earlier, though, so I’m trying my best to be more focused in the evening when the house is quiet.