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Bear with small head.

My boyf gives me dirty looks when I’m cutting up cute teddy bears… it’s OK, they’re not real!

I have a stash of furry teddy bears rescued from the dump: most of my materials are second hand, unwanted things. Usually I’m checking out the local charity establishments and it’s pot luck as to what I might find.

It got me thinking, who would want to get rid of teddy bears, some of them are brand new still with the tags on.

There’s no planning what you want, no shopping list, it’s down to serendipity. And I have to make my mind up there and then as to whether something has potential, because sod’s law it won’t be there the next day.

A lesson learned there. I found a genuine 80’s pink Care Bear but ummmed and ahhhed about it, needless to say it wasn’t there the next day. Massively annoying as it wasn’t till the day after that, that I discovered Stephen Fry in Heat mag papped wearing a pink Care Bear head. A lesson learned.

(Hello ‘List of Work’, I love you!)

Projects, edited…

A recent comment has made me think that I should go some way to explaining these ideas.

* Cloud Models:models of clouds in toy stuffing, scaled from photos to my eye view scale. With GPS.

* Hair Shadows: life-size tracings of people after they have told me something. Also now developing into objects of importance shadow tracings.

* Stephen Fry Teddy Bear Head: recent pap of S.F from Heat magazine (not my magazine by the way) with pink care bear costume on his head. Re-enactment with 2nd rate bear head.

* House Faces: photos of ‘faces’ found within my house, i.e. on brickwork.

* Mouths: smiling mouths cut out from magazines taken from the doctor’s surgery. Flummoxed as to what to do with them as yet.

* Venn Diagram: painted over seven days.

* Clock Tracing: 24 hour tracing of bell alarm clock on the hour, every hour as the alarm sounds. Endurance. Got ear plugs.

* Sewn Soldiers: miniature toy soldiers sewn into man’s white work shirt. Have begun this, more later.

* Toblerone Photos:images of a floating Toblerone in an expanse of sky, existential musings ‘what if the only thing that existed was this Toblerone’. Have begun taking photos.

* ATM Family Portraits: FP in front of ATMs. Not sure if this is legal.

* Envelope Drawings: sketches of my house or sender’s house onto received envelopes.

* Celeb Photo Lurkers: collection of CL, photo montages with re-enactments.

* Front Page Newspaper Paintings: images taken from newspapers rendered into paint by numbers format.

* Useless Diagrams, Painted:diagrams devised to be useless. Pretty and in watercolour.

Am I full of **** or do I have some good ideas?????