Early in September, took a class from Michael De Meng
http://www.michaeldemeng.com/ His artist statement:
"My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing."
At right he is demoing a purse by Randi Harper (
The Ranch)
I started with a simple makeup bag, found at Goodwill.
I think transformed it with paint and found objects. here is the "looking bad" side. Note in the true spirit of transformation, all you need to do is turn the bad around and it is transformed. (see below).
Here is the more "typical" or "good" side.
another view of the back side. here you can see some of the additions by the handle a little better. Note if you click on a photo it will show it to you enlarged.
