Recently, I did something I’ve never done before.  I stopped by Goodwill and just browsed.  I was vaguely looking for something I could use for an art project, but since I did not have any project in mind, this was a just a methodical trip up one aisle and down the next, looking at everything.

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I inherited my love of maps from my father.  He spent some time in Army intelligence as a young man, where his job was to translate aerial photography into topographical maps.  He has quite a treasure trove of old paper maps, and some of my fondest memories of my childhood are the times when dad pulled out his stash, spread the maps out on our dining room table, and we studied them together.

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I like maps.  Not that anyone uses a paper map anymore, in this age of GPS and smart phones.    I think I inherited my love of maps from my father.  He worked in Army intelligence for a few years, translating aerial reconnaissance photography into usable maps.  He wouldn’t say much more about it, of course, but from time to time, he would haul out a stack of beautiful old paper maps and spread them out lovingly for both of us to admire.

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In addition to watching a lot of YouTube, I also like to look at Pinterest.  And over the last few months, as I was wandering around looking at Pinterest images, a project idea started to take shape in my head, helped along quite a bit by a few images I found.  The general idea was of a globe with terraforming machine embedded in the surface and clear geological activity visible.  How to do it was the question of course…

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When I put together my mixed media altered clock, I’d originally planned to use two family heirloom timepieces.  But I only had room for one, leaving my fancy watch needing a home.

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I might have mentioned this before, but I watch a lot of YouTube. A LOT. And one of the largest playlists in my personal YouTube library is for mixed media art. I am particularly fond of the steampunk aesthetic…gears and rust and pipes and valves and mechanical parts that may or may not perform any function.