Isolation- Prototype

"Isolation"
endless book: index card, ink.

a journal-type book, i wanted to make a book one night and just started writing. The poem has no beginning or end, and is meant to be read in person (take THAT technology!) I made it to explain how bored, isolated and depressed i can get, and how it was that bad this summer.

Text from this page:

Endings, I said to myself,
as the clock turned to Midnight.
Tomorrow is a beginning.
Now is an ending.
But things never seem to end anymore.
They just seem to stretch on endlessly,
one day is much like the other.

I feel like I'm in a foreign country,
and don't know the language.
You were born, and you die some day.
That's all i know.
That's all anybody knows.
You speak, your lips move,
But i hear nothing.
I am listening to something far away.


No clouds are in the sky.
I sit and watch the bubbles
meander slowly up the glass of ginger ale.
I've nothing to say.
Only a lonely Jay calls out.
All else is silent.


I tried to keep a diary,
but nothing seems to happen
worth writing about.
I'm just here.
I fear being here forever,
but I also fear the future,
when i won't be here
anymore.

now...can you guess what order i wrote them in?

Goddess Necklace

"Goddess Necklace"
nuts, carved horn, ceramic, clear quartz, cowrie shell, agate, pearl, and hematite, on waxed cord.

each of the pendants on this tribal style necklace represents one of the elements- the horn feather is for air, the ceramic bead is for fire, the shell for water, and the agate for earth. The clear quartz represents the All-Mother.

Hatchling Neclace

"Hatchling Necklace"
white quartz bead, metal findings, quail feather, silk cord.

this necklace is made to celebrate birth and potential. As soon as i saw the roughly egg-shaped stone beads at my local craft store, using one as a pendant crystallized in my mind. The feather came as a later idea.

Crystal Do-deca-hedron

Swarovski crystals, glass beads, nylon fishing line.

i found a pattern to make this super-sparkly Do-Deca-Hedron (twenty sided geometric figure) in a bead shop in Virginia. The ancient greeks aligned each of the old elements with a solid shape made of all the same shape- the Five Platonic solids. the Dodecahedron is made up of pentagons, and it represents the fith element, Spirit.

Heart Chakra Amulet

"Heart Chakra Amulet"
glass beads, glass pearls, "new jade" cabochon, adventurine beads on a plastic felt base.

i made this necklace as an amulet for the Heart chakra. This particular energy center is associated with two different colors: green and pink. i used a brick-stitch technique i found in a magazine to trim the cabochon.

Ocean Amulet

"Ocean Amulet"
felted wool, cowrie shell, needle felted whale, naturally smoothed pebble with stamped image, crocheted wool strap, ceramic bead.

i made this amulet pouch to honor the ocean in it's masculine and feminine forms- the nurturing, feminine side is represented by a cowrie shell, the challenging, masculine side by the white whale. The stamped image is a combination of the elemental symbol of water and the symbol of Neptune.
the bead sewed on the outside of the pouch i bought at a craft show in Bethany. The artist that made the bead made it from a mold she created from a fossil shell.

Beach Cuff

"Beach Cuff"
wool and nylon blend yarn, crocheted, cowrie shell.

i made this pretty cuff while i was at the beach. I found it emotionally healing to be by the sea, so close to nature. Until Jeff's friends showed up and the whole beach house was filled with CHAOS! Fortunately, the town of Bethany is so peaceful, maybe some day i will live there.