Keep my eyes open, for....?

I found this antique looked bottle lid at my office parking lot, it caught my eyes this morning.

I'm not a lid collector but I kept this one. It is now sitting on my desk to recall me that I used to have a habit of searching found objects in live. In my 3rd year university, I had taken a sculpture course in about creating sculptures and messages from the found objects. During the year I had learned to open-eyed at anything around, on the ground, in the garbage can, or something at the corner of a street. From large piece like furniture or very little like a tiny stone, or weired thing like animal bones etc. What makes me exciting was going through the process of giving a rebirth to an abandon object, having a new identity and functionality from changing its role.

My school year was over faster than I thought but I've been carried out what I learned, to engage my sensitivity and creativity in what I see, and adding imagination to my routine live.

"Every morning is a new start", keep refreshing my mind and you know sometime later I may make a piece of awesome jewelery with this Starbucks lid. YEAH!!!

NowHere....NoWhere....

What makes different today?

From the kid magazine, I used to have a game was finding the differences between 2 visually identical pictures. It was fun to find out the differences when I went into the detail.

Today, living in a peaceful city, everyday is repeating the same pattern. I pass by the same community, stop at the same traffic light, seeing the same buildings along the streets. I lost my sense of finding the differences from day to day, it is not as fun as the game in real life.

What makes today different from yesterday?

Sometime it came across my mind...

My Week of...

July 4th...
I was sitting in a downtown cafe, my friend was testing a new camera. It's a shot without preparation but I just like it. It shows a character though I'm not a pretty girl.






July 7th...
A surprise dinner, expecting to meet 2 beautiful girls in the evening, and it turned out 4 handsome guys and 4 pretty girls...just overwhelming!!!






July 8th...
I saw a very fresh summer look on my co-worker's head, he cut all his hair! Now there are 2 round heads sitting right in front of my eyes everyday. Tell you...I will take photos from his back when hair is growing every week. It is fun to do it! :)







July 8th...
Few friends took me to a fancy restaurant for a birthday dinner, one took this photo for me, he caught me from an interesting spot. I seldom see myself in this angel. Nice catch!






July 9th...
Just be a bit more sensitive to my surrounding, I found the light and the fan of my office ceiling are different.







July 10th...
I made a quick trip to downtown outdoor art exhibition, there was an artist painting at his booth. I'm not too crazy about his painting, but he just looks so cool in his work.

A letter to myself

I received my 1st birthday gift of this year, not an expensive piece but valuable. It is a blank paper journal book, I love blank paper which gives me free space to think, to imagine, to draw, to express, to write and to organize etc...

On the 1st page of my journal, I drew a greeting for my birthday, then wrote a long letter to say some words to me. I have made many cards for friends but never made one for my own birthday, never write letter to myself. So why not doing something different this year?