I have a sculpted olive pit, painted grains of rice, minuscule dolls.
So its hard not to gather a million little knick knacks, especially considering how little storage space they demand.
But eventually, they need to do something..... or they become just more things that my children will have to dispose of when I die......
One of the other things I'm always keeping an eye out for at the thrift shops, is containers. and boxes. and little things.
Marry them all together, head in the opposite direction to the cutesy dolls, and you have
THE LITTLE CABINETS OF CURIOSITY
Then when you have so many of these collections that your studio is a museum of plastic animals and shells and bleached chicken bones and you wonder why you ever started because its just becoming another obsession and you have even more bits and pieces than you had when you began.... yes, make another one.
This is my mantelpiece.
.... and a bigger box...
Now, to make some more.
