Crossing off the list

Summer is flying by. I decided to finish up several projects before school starts and life gets busy.

Last spring I bought a 4 ft. x 4 ft. canvas. The picture is a lower corner of the canvas. I wanted to do a large version of the bunnies magazine collages I made some time ago.

The rabbit represents all animals that have to adapted to our redefining of the world.

I plan to place the running rabbit in different environments created my man.

The collage background is made from old issues of Art in America.

( love the heavy paper and fab colors)

Like the Pink House I made for the Home Sweet Home challenge, the theme goes back to man invading green spaces.

I made the pink house to represent the home owner ideals in the John C. Melloncamp song,

Little pink houses for you and me....ain't that America....

The housing mortgage fiasco aside the other ugly side to home ownership is housing plans that are devouring farm land at a rapid rate. Land developers also drive up the price of land. It is becoming out of reach for  families to purchase working farms.

Yes, we need houses but older neighborhoods are being overlooked by perspective home owners.

Small colonials and split level housing plans from yesterday are not desirable.

( okay, split levels in hindsight may not have been a design keeper

but they get the job done)

As older neighborhoods fall out of fashion we expand into green space.

This week I purged my home of clutter. I was upset by the amount of stuff

I HAD TO DEAL WITH.

It was taking up my time and ticking me off.

Prospective, a large part of the worlds population has one change of clothes and a pot to cook in..nothing else.

Lesson, if you live in America you have it made in the shade even if you live in a split level.