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Terri Long – Telling lost stories with found objects.

Month: February, 2013

Hanging out

We hung the show late last night. The weather never cooperated, steady cold rain all day and night. None of us wanted to load and unload cars, but eventually we capitulated and met at 7:30pm to install the show at The Bridge.

This is a two person show and I share the walls with Joanna Mullen. She brought two of her Art Box framing crew friends along. Delightful ladies who had the wherewithall to fetch bagels from Bodo’s to help us keep our wits.

Opening reception is Friday 3/1 from 6 to 8pm, catching the early and late First Friday gallery crawlers, and is generally a great scene. Now for the sartorial concern, what am I going to wear?

Pinched reflection in the plate glass window of The Bridge.

Pinched reflection in the plate glass window of The Bridge.

Joanna, Amanda and Lana are framing queens. Much jocularity and banter kept me thoroughly entertained.

Joanna, Amanda and Lana are framing queens. Much jocularity and banter kept me thoroughly entertained.

Who doesn't like a good perspective shot.

Who doesn’t like a good perspective shot.

Bookbags

Remember the bookbags you carried back in elementary school? If you were lucky, Mom took you back-to-school shopping for slacks, shoes and a new bookbag to hold all those textbooks. I can’t remember what my last bag looked like. But when I started playing around with discarded textbooks, I knew what my next bookbag could look like.

Long before I bought shoulder bags made from a Guatemalan coffee sack and knitted plastic grocery bags, and way before upcycling or DIY were terms I’d actually heard of, I started making book purses.

Happy to report there are several, new-to-me book purses in production. Here are a few from the archives.

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Adventures for Readers Book 1 bag, 2006.
Khaki web belt for the straps, liner is an old pair of cargo parachute pants, toggles included.

14-OuiFrancais

Oui je parle Francais! book bag, 2006
Cotton linen dress for liner, ribbon and button closure, cotton belt for handles.

OrangeBookPurse02

Reader’s Digest Condensed Book purse, 2010
Sassy blue jeans liner, Dad’s casual friday belt for handles, lone star rivets.

OrangeBookPurse03

OrangeBookPurse01

Pie-BookPurses

Pie’s kitchen, Christmas 2012. Photo by Barry Long.
Top, To Kill a Mockingbird book bag with dust jacket, 2010. Belt and liner from vintage secretary’s skirt.
Adventures for Readers Book 1 bag, 2006, bottom.

BookBin-JR1

Hanging out in the McIntire Book Bin, photo by John Robinson, Summer 2011, http://www.robinsonimagery.com/. Improving Your Health book bag, leather handles.

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Terri and Karen, Charlottesville City Market, Summer 2007.
Green book bag with green belt handles.