After a long delay, we finally have some pictures to share. Just last month we had these pictures taken. There are more photos in this series but these are the best of the lot. I’ll try to get some other up soon.
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Mason has begun exploring a new artistic medium—tape. Right now he is focused almost entirely on Scotch Magic Tape though he did experiment briefly with duct tape (still affectionately known as duck tape). His first piece was begun with wrapping paper on the back of which his great aunt Kathy had drawn several pictures. He used her work as the basis of his own creation—“Treasure in Tape” (pictured below center). Clearly, the young artist is offering a scathing commentary on the modern tendency to reify art rather than appreciate its evanescence.
Since that first piece, Mason has been spending much of his time on a mixed-media piece which as yet remains untitled—some consideration of “The Red Balloon” has been rumored as has “Stuck in Responsibility.” You will notice that it combines paper clips and post-its (signifying the drudgery of the daily grind), a booklet of directions at the bottom (signifying the expectations we feel are weighing us down), and a business card and police badge (symbolizing the authority that keeps us in our place). Meanwhile the red balloon—symbol of our artistic and playful sides—attempts to lift the mess to a loftier perspective.
Taking a little longer the 3 days Christi had originally allotted for re-doing the sun porch, we can now finally say it is complete.
Mason’s Grandpa and Grandma Keim helped a great deal with the project. Do note, however, that most of the furniture pictured was moved up to the sun porch by Christi without any help from her husband.
Living up to his name, Mason helped his father break ground Saturday afternoon on what they envisioned as the mother-of-all-snow-forts. After an hour and a half on Saturday and around an hour and a half on Sunday, the project is nearing completion.
The picture below shows Mason painting the snow fort blue and green. Red was considered but vetoed after Mason’s mother realized that red might make the fort look as though it had seen a fierce and bloody battle.
Snow bricks were built using an old food and beverage cooler that had a removable lid. Saturday’s bricks are a lower grade material than Sunday’s bricks. The wall closest to the street was done on Saturday—the back wall on Sunday. So, we could probably repel an attack from the rear much better than a frontal assault.
Click on the picture below to go to the rest of the pictures in the snow fort gallery.
