halloween!

A ghost brooch I did for Halloweeeen!

Happy Halloween ♥

Jellyfishmonster Mobile Charms

I've created some mobile charms today! They have names too. The red is Randy Redz, the yellow is called Dilbert Duke and Edna May is the purple one.

They can be purchased from here.

Project against stereotyping

Finally I can show you a project which I was working on during these past weeks. A couple of months ago the local organization Atelier culture.projects initiated a project dedicated to stereotyping, entitled: Memento: Little Moments of Awareness against Stereotypes.

A seminar about this issue was carried out and a few quotes were generated from the seminar. These quotes were based on the strong stereotypes which are present in fairy tales. During the seminar fairytales were analysed and stereotypes were detected and discussed in depth. Next step was to create little mementos which featured these quotes related to stereotyping. We finally produced keychains, mirrors, badges and magnets with little illustrations accompanied by a matching quote. Nicely packaged, they were hang in three different locations around Malta and people could pick one, and hopefully carry on the message against stereotyping and labeling.

Here are some of the designs I did for this project (each quote was translated in Maltese):

Mirror on the tree/ who is fair that I can see? (please turn over)
Mera mera mal-fergha mxejra / fejn hu l-gmiel biex jaraw ghajnejja? (aqleb ghan-naha l-ohra)

Society defines the witch
Is-socjeta taghti definizzjoni ghas-sahhara

In bed? Can't be granny!
Fis-sodda? zgur m'hijiex in-Nanna mela!

The clock struck 12 / Cinderella ran to her princess
Mad-daqq ta' nofs il-lejl / Cinderella griet lejn il-principessa taghha

The mementos at 1. Lower Barakka in Valletta, 2. Sliema and 3. University of Malta:

Close up the hanging mementos:

I really do hope that this project induced some change in the way we think!
You can read more about the project here!

IF: Flying

I decided to contribute to this week's IF topic flying. Here is it.

little green chirps

A new painting done with gouache paint, pens and paper.

Inspired by autumn and Joni Mitchell - especially this song.

brooches and multi purpose hangers

I have created two brooches :) One features a wooden yellow duck, which was originally a hairclip. The one below is a red button brooch - originally an earring.. yepp believe it or not!

Available here

Been thrifting again and got myself some useful items. See this clothes hanger?

Why use it for clothes when you can hang other stuff like notes, images, post cards or photographs? Here is my version.

There's a Radiohead ticket there, a Miffy postcard, a little original drawing by the talented Asja, a Gaudi postcard from Spain, a little note by my brother and other papers and items which have value for me.

I was struck by this box. The patterns simply blew me away. I liked the fact that the flowers are not positioned in the center, but slightly to the side.

And this cat too :)

Photography

Recently, Friends of the Earth Malta launched an international photographic exhibition and competition on the effects of climate change. The theme was: Climate Change: the change is already here.

A maximum of 20 photos were featured in the exhibition, amongst which one can find the following photograph taken by me - the photo was awarded second prize!


The exhibition is moving around 3 different locations around the Maltese Islands. Currently it can be viewed at The University of Malta. It will be moved to Birgu in two weeks time.

The exhibition is part of an awareness raising campaign which FoE Malta is participating in together with sixteen FoE groups across Europe.

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Something different from usual, is this photo I've taken a couple of weeks ago. It features the legendary long haired woman, portrayed in an early 20th century style.

The photo was exhibited at a Burlesque show which took place in Valletta last week.

And lastly.. some recent snapshots :) My favorite is this first one - the lady put on a sulky face as soon as she realized i was taking a photo of her (I was mostly struck by the colour scheme and the grungy white door anyway!)