Cat mania

These are the first stages of cat mania which is actually intolerant of what the spouse thinks of your current phsicological condition. All spelling errors permited! All mania and depression allowed! Pure medicine for a broken heart..

1 stage - imagening of telling people how you feel
2 stage – playing with the idea of telling people what you actually think
3 stage – starting to draw simple images of the object
4 stage – thinking of committing to a good deed
5 stage – starting to tell some strange things about yourself and the object
6 stage – starting to create stories that never happened and try them on your friends
7 stage – depression – who is listening?
8 stage – the birth of an idea
9 stage – plans in development
10 stage – the first problems
11 stage – turns out that great things are not easy
12 stage – repetition of the project title… infinetly…

wire cat

I created this cat out of wire. I don't have many photoes of it but you can see what i've tryed. I bought once a donkey that was made of quite harder to bent wire and i was impressed so i tryed. And to be honest it is fun to try new things, especially when it kind of gets somewhere. As you can see in the back of the picture i made also a dog. Actually i made as well a mouse, but i dont have a photo of it.

Digital art experiment

An interesting experiment was the liquefier tool that I used to create these images. At first there was a simple image of thread rolls and then something began shaping up. So just moments away was that close to cat looking image which of course isn’t the best but is not that bad after all. So taking journeys in experimenting over various kinds of materials is one of my favorite stuff to do in my spare time. And there are many programs with as many tools to do such things.

Another image I tried was the blue one again with thread rolls and it kind of looks maybe better than the first one. So I am continuing my exploration journey until I find it.

Stamping cats all over!

What I tried today is to create a cat stamping tool. When I was a kid we used to buy these and they seamed to be all over the place. We were stamping all the pages in our textbooks and it was fun. We were stamping even our favorite books to show everybody that they are ours. So I came up with an idea to buy a present to a little fellow who Is just starting with that kind of toys and what a surprise!

I went to a big shop with all these toys and found just one box and it included just 6 stamping blocks - a bear, a duck, a dog, an elephant, a dear and a mouse. Well, I thought, it shouldn’t be that hard to create your own…

Whatever design you like!

So I took my silicon pistol and began. Here is my silicon pistol – may be the cheapest one on the market. I drew my first design idea with a pencil and then covered it with silicon on a sheet of rice paper. Now the thing is that I began as if I am a Michelangelo and I can begin drawing from the toe and then continue with the rest of the body step by step. But I am no Michelangelo and I messed all up by melting my silicon lines every time I added something. Somehow I managed to create the stamping surface but I didn’t have a wooden block to use as a base and made one again from silicon and the result was more than unsatisfying. And then I tried to level all the lines for silicon doesn’t spread equally and It went even worst:)


So after some trouble getting the silicon stamping area relevantly equal so that it can carry the ink equally I received these results. Not bad for a start, but not good enough. And I have taken a picture of the first stamp and the result images to give you a hint of my disappointment.

So after all the hesitation and trouble I realized that I was doing some very stupid things and a single wooden block with a single silicon drawing is going to be faster, easier and much smarter. So now I was almost happy but didn’t have a wooden block and couldn’t take this project to the end so I decided to try something else.

I took some pieces of isolation material (5 mm) that I have around and after I drew with a pencil what I imagined I took a knife and cut it. So this is what I created and tried the stamping qualities of the material and they actually are not that bad. It’s just you can stamp only 3 times before inking again and although it is equally flat and can be easily glued to an wooden block it is kind of too fragile for a kid. Because we all know how kids like to scratch with their cute little fingers everything and they like to know how things work and this material won’t last more than a minute. So the stamping result is better but it is not hard enough to face the moment of children playing with it.

So this is what I received as a result of the stamping with the isolation material cutouts and they are actually not that bad. So I had to think of something easier and more capable of withstanding children play. And suddenly it hit me.

I could just draw a cat however complicated - one or ten - and just go to an office where people create stamping tools like firm stamps. And it sounds so nice when you say it – the perfectly working stamping tool can be ready in 5 minutes and can make over 50 000 copies of the image! Wow! And this is precisely what I am going to do when I think of a drawing I like enough and I am going to draw some projects now for I actually like the idea very much and am certain I have to try it.

So I will continue though with the search of other ways to create a stamping tool. One of cource could be a wooden block with engraving in it, but this takes time. Another possibility is to create a gypsum matrix and then lay silicon on it. There are many options and all sound like fun.

Paper cut out cats

A few weeks ago I asked my grandmother what kind of a kid I was. I am observing closely the children of my friends and I kind of feel some curiosity as to what kind of trouble I was to the grownups. And my grandmother told me I was that kind smiling creature, almost always agreeing with the others and I was that super extra good mannered kid… You know memories are a strange thing they obviously can change… So I am that wonderful person as a kid and suddenly and most surprisingly my grandmother says:
- But there was that thing about you…

Wow! Wait a minute! What thing?!

Well there was that thing of you making so much trash that we just couldn’t clean whatever we did. Awful! And what was that thing with the scissors… You destroyed thousands of thons of paper cutting and cutting and then again and again… We were giving you the scissors and people were asking where is the kid in this house?! Why is it so quiet?

Now I must admit I have started to plant trees, I am not joking. I have planted at least 10 trees and I assume this is quite insufficient, but it is a start. It is something. It’s just I didn’t realize how insufficient it is by now.

But let me say it - once you’ve tried the pair of scissors you could never give up whatever you do…

A moment in space and time

One of the greatest things about humanity is the capability to capture moments of time. Life, some say, are the moments we live, we remember. They can last and they can exist in just a fracture of time. Now the picture I’ve taken is not of something extra important, precious or worthy but it is of something that existed only a few moments and it just makes you think about it.

What if I hadn’t taken this photo? I would have remembered something about it, may be the moment of creation, or the moment of extinction, destruction – the moment I thought “I cant keep it” or may be just the feeling “I could have made it better”. Well why can’t I make it better? I can build it every day, five times a day, every five minutes… But will it be exactly the same as before?

So this is just a glimpse of the idea that we live now and we feel now and can live and feel tomorrow as well but it will be something different. For you know that is something that has been said before as well – you could never step into the same river twice. And it’s quite true.

So what I did is that I captured a piece of time, a piece of me playing with stones today. I wonder what I would have done yesterday if I was playing with those stones. So enjoy your life and your personal fractures of time, take a picture of the things you love and don’t do it necessarily with a camera, do it in your mind. Look at your cat and feel the moment for it will not last forever. But that again is what makes it so precious.