Eggs for Art’s Sake
She Crushed His Heart Like a Bug (detail)Continuing my theme of broken hearts and clichés of love comes She Crushed His Heart Like a Bug, a mixed media piece made with love from 80-odd-year-old paper torn from a romance novel, pen and ink, red foil, grey thread and vintage lace. (Yes Mr Taxman, I really did buy those chocolate strawberry-cream filled Easter eggs just for my art.)
I very much enjoyed making this piece – even if sewing those fishnet stockings was torturous on such fragile paper – and had a good giggle. Not that there’s anything funny about crushing hearts underfoot of course*.
* No hearts were harmed during construction of this piece of art.
She Crushed His Heart Like a Bug
She Crushed His Heart Like a Bug (detail)
She Crushed His Heart Like a Bug (detail)