The Power of Love

Continuing on from the previous post and the brief set by First Fold Records for the second edition of their publication 'Premier Pli', I have begun work on my precious four pages for the magazine. 'Nostalgia' is the brief and with it being such an incredibly personal subject I wanted to make small objects, trinkets that could be kept safely. Whenever I have the urge to clear out cupboards or drawers it is the big stuff that goes, the small stuff tends to survive and my thinking is that these small objects will act as memory aids, time-machines, a link from the 'now' me to the me in the past.

The things that have been important in the making of these objects are:

1. A desire to believe that personal trinkets possess innate magical properties.

2. The fan-fetishism associated with film props.

3. Time travel.

4. Making by hand.

5. The use of children's craft/ art materials.

6. Memory's ability to juxtapose facts and fictions into one flawless entity.

This blog post will focus on just one of the objects, future blogs will, no doubt, indulge the other three.

I happily managed to obtain some sheets of Shrinky Dinks (shrinkable plastic) with a view to make a replica of my mum's old Datsun Sunny with Back to the Future De Lorean time travel attachments.

Rather than write about it I think the pictures that follow tell a much more interesting tale. 

This piece is called 'The Power of Love' (a reference to the Huey Lewis & the News track and, therefore, Back to the Future). I completed it over about three days, just in case you were interested.

 

I will post a picture of the finished time-machine when 'Premier Pli 2' is published. It has been fun and games making these little objects and a lot of patience and love has gone into them. And maybe that's what it's all about, maybe that's what gives these objects their magic.

Thanks for popping by.