GGM's ART: Hand Coiled Paper Bowls, etc.: Art etc.......Quilts, Sand and Paper

Art etc.......Quilts, Sand and Paper

Cotton Quilt: Spring Dance 2006

Collage: Lovely Garden Pests!

Playa Sand Painting: Burning Man and Bike 2010

Bike Project 2013: BMX er Evolution

Beach Sand and Pebbles: Mirage 2009

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Welcome to GGM's ART

Glenda-Nevada Artist

I like playing with paper, scissors, earth materials, and color. I make practical items out of materials that have outlived their original intent.

Hand-coiled recycled paper bowls
I have taken a more direct approach to using and reusing paper for the hand-coiled recycled paper bowls. I call it re-purposing. Many of us receive "mail" that is mostly advertisements, catalogs, brochures, newspapers and magazines, etc.

I knew I had to do something with all that "junk". Hence, my recycled hand-coiled paper bowls. With these paper materials I make vessels of differing shapes and sizes that can be used to store, hold or display anything dry from buttons to rose petals to serving popcorn and nuts.

My construction starts with a simple fold of the paper, then an ancient coiling technique that is still used by many world cultures. After the paper is coiled, I shape the bowl. Depending upon how the colors show-up in the shaped piece (this is where the art and creativity comes in) I decide on the texture, shape and color of embellishments.

In my small way, I hope for every vessel I make, I keep some paper from landing in a landfill.

Art etc.......Quilts, Sand and Paper

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