This Week’s Creative Prompt
You ready for this? OK, here goes: For this week’s creative arty prompt you need something sweet. Not necessarily edible but sweet… cloying even. And make it slightly disturbing. Or funny. Or oddly beautiful. Play with contrast—cute vs. creepy, precious vs. absurd. Let the tension do the work.
There’s a story behind this:
PEEE-PS!!!
Walking through the aisles of the store that shall not be named (because I’m way to cool to shop there) my senses are slammed by the current crop of holy day candy, crap and home décor.
I make it past the distractions–floral wreathes. Mass produced ceramic bunnies. Egg lights on a string.
Although the bunny lights are tempting…
(Note to self: Go back for the bunny lights. You know you NEED them for the new studio!!!)
The toddler outfits of tulle nearly do me in, nearly have me weeping with nostalgia because they’re so stinkin’ cute and the kid who would’ve once loved them has aged out of that phase. As has the next generation of stinkin’ cute grands.
I ignore all those cheap distractions.
I’m on a mission!
A mission from the most high deity of spring. Which can only mean–
I’m here to score some PEEPS!!!
Muse and I go through this every year.
Me: I’m buying Peeps to make an arty little diorama. A tableau of sugar coated marshmallow bunnies doing arty stuff. Maybe some churchy stuff because, y’know…Easter.
Muse: Gimme a break. You say this every year and you never do it. You just rip the plastic off, stale ‘em up and gnaw they tiny little heads off.
Me (getting excited by the thought of gnawing stale marshmallows): A diorama of bunny parts! Dismembered ears! And stale little marshmallow bodies.
Muse: You are one sick puppy! Sighs. Go ahead in the name of art. And a sugar high. And all that is 6 years old in you. But not just a cheap shot photo. I wanna see some art.
So I did. And here it is.
Don’t judge me.
You can find more of my slightly unhinged critter collection here.
This is how we court the muse—one questionable decision at a time. Or, in this case, 7 Weight Watcher points I can never get back again.
Until next week–
Susie, you wicked thing you, those poor peeps!! You need to enter the WAPO peeps diorama contest, if they still have it.
A Peeps diorama contest??? I never knew there was such a thing! I’ll have to look into it and buy more Peeps. I’ll eat them, of course, and never make the diorama but it’s a good excuse.