This is a poorly lit photo of my current project. The aforementioned bright color palette is for the wee old school Apple logo that’s in the works there. The whole grid is my take on the 39 squares project ( http://39squares.blogspot.com/ ). The idea of which is to make your grid, containing as many squares as you are old, and, in the original project, to stitch one square a day. Because I do not play well with deadlines, I’m giving myself till my 30th birthday in November to complete my “squares”, some of which are rectangular or… Tetris-tile shaped, to work with a 40 square grid. And each of my boxes is something that makes me happy, is important to me, etc. My first finished box contains quotation marks. I have volumes & volumes of quote books, and am a lover of words in general. Works on many levels.
As does the in-progress Apple logo. While making my list of things to put in squares, my indispensable iPhone needed to be represented (it threatened to go on strike if I left it out). Then I thought — ooh, pretty old Apple Macintosh logo! Ooh! Which also represents my Dad, a die-hard Mac guy. AND my first computer, which was his original Mac. I was 8? 9?
Oh, and uh, ignore the ghosty off-center Apple under the quote marks. Water-soluble pen, gotta love it.
30 squares, beginning
21 Feb 2013 Leave a comment