01-04-01

method: Cardstock covered in spent Spectra tissue using PPA. Pearl Ex interference violet mixed in and rubbed over shoe. Shoe purchased at thrift store for $1, ripped apart and trimmed, glued to front with e-6000. Bound with black wire, inner pages are purple AstroNights papers, purchased at OfficeMax

Beware the ones who know more than you. If they claim it, they don't. If you suspect it, maybe.

I've been inspired by Terry Lee Getz of Pisces Rising a lot in the past. When she first came out with PR, I was the first one on the list to get one.

In issue #2, she mentioned an old photo of women, all wearing black shoes. It's evolved -- it's the Black Shoe Society. They're everywhere.

This is her Christmas gift. Late. I hate sending things during the holidays -- they're always delayed. It's more fun to stretch the holidays out, anyway. (And TL -- stop looking. This is for you.)

I love making books. Irridescent-covered, oddly decorated blank books. Small artist's books, interpreting this emotion or that sense or some event. I have a lot to learn. I work on them incessantly.

Maybe it's what books represent. Knowledge. Escape. Possibility.

Knowledge is power, or so the after-school specials say.

Power in the knowing. Power in the creating.