UpCycled

Somewhere along our pasts come to meet us, again and again. I often go on about the fantastic people in my life, and my past, and the history and experiences we have together having dynamic if not levels of vibrancy in our own personal growth. Years ago I met Christina and was lucky enough to spend a lot of time getting to know her before she moved back out east. Years went by, and as one could imagine, we re-connected through Facebook and ideas were passed on for a Mothers gift, so she could share her creations to the World. Creating a logo that represents taking action, yet keeping a simple, elegance in relationship to bike products being passed on by previous users was a tricky one, but, like the energy cycling can bring to ones soul, I got switched on, it all made sense!

*A mother-daughter team on a mission!

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Everyone has passion. My mothers happens to be creating all forms of art. Her travels have brought much inspiration to her work throughout her life-long career. Her recent rendezvous to Jamaica have brought her a new love of up-cycling EVERYTHING! Bicycle inner tubes are often discarded by bike shops to end up in a land fill, but this durable, soft, leather-like materialis perfect for her latest obsession... UPCYCLE Couture!

*(website direct).

www.upcycleforever.com

May the 4th be with you.

Some years ago, 2006 specifically, I sat down to draw this little Yoda based on the animated movie, now a full blown series is probably better then the movies in depth and darkness yet is still highly underrated due to being animated. The stories are the inside in-between of Clone Wars (2nd), and Revenge of the Sith (3rd) and explains a lot of the story of how so much change came about in the last movie. Now, i was never a die hard star wars fan, but, i have always loved the original series right down to the first time i saw Empire Strikes Back in the theatre (pretty sure my first one). I remember sneaking out of the seat and running down to see the At At's up close by sitting right down on the floor in front of everyone and looking up in complete awe of how big this big robots were (not connecting the drivers of course;).

This little drawing was made into a clear coroplast birthday card wrapped up in hemp cord and tattered fabric, to symbolize the rugged condition, yet humble materials of a Jedi, who has seen and been through so much. I have no pictures beyond this one scan left, and there was blood spattered around with intense reds, and greens and Yoda in a much younger, angrier era, before he found the calmer sense of being we all learned to love.