Viv -- Weeks 4, 5, 6

Hi Everybody,

Sitting here w/Joan learning how to do this.  Here's what I've got for the last 3 weeks:

Week 4. Thinking about giving my rock boxes and bowls as gifts.  Sometimes to someone I know, sometimes a stranger and sometimes just to nature.  This week I offered a  Rock box with some water, some sea pebbles and some red outback grit in it.  Again, symbolic gestures to the natural “disasters in the world this week, flooding in our south, dust storms in Australia.  I added to Noah’s rock garden outside 100 Pond Street.   It was a  peace offering to someone I have an ongoing conflict with.  He returned it via James, my 11 year old nephew.     

  Not a particularly successful venture.

 

Week 5.  Feeling confused about the point of my project - to make something? – to          give Something?  Where am I going?  I used the time to make some mixed clay balls.  (no picture)

Week 6.  Still confused, the morning of my scheduled “Time Project “ time. Taiko and I went to visit ninety-seven year old Nettie at a nursing home.  Her family was concerned that she had no  appetite and wasn’t eating. I asked her why to which she replied that it didn’t taste good – she didn’t like it.  Asked what she would eat – she grinned and said Chocolate ice cream.  Later that afternoon we went back with one of my bowls and a quart of chocolate ice cream.  Nettie was thrilled and ate like a teenager.