I wonder if the State of California Air Resources Board has determined the carcinogenic threshhold of spraypaint fumes? I am considering wearing a mask when I spray. I mean a cloud of swirling vaporous toxins curling up the ends of my hair and spiking my eyebrows can’t be good can it? Here are my latest experiments using my hypnotic new mehendi stencils from India. The patterns are very absorbing. If you look closely you can also see evidence of a Hindu newspaper. While I was out back spraying away my neighbor hollered over the fence. My immediate reaction was annoyance. After all, I cannot very well stop in the middle of a spraypaint fume induced trance state to attend to the trivial needs of others. Can I? Good thing I didn’t play possum. I would never have received 2 big fat chocolate covered strawberries if I would have done that. Wash my hands first? Are you kidding? Those berries were gone in exactly 5 bites.
Below is the rest of the Iowa mailart dispatch that I sent out last week.
Don’t these spraypaint experiments look like tiles? Who knows where they’ll end up. Probably on some mailart. Maybe on my front porch. It’s hard to say at this point.
Head to Flickr and do a search right this second if you want to see more mehendi hands. When you’re all done, see if you can find any Arabic mehendi. It’s glorious.
About 10 years ago I studied mehendi with an Indian woman on Sundays in her house in Monrovia. There was a small group of us. We would gather in a circle on her living room floor, eat plates of Indian delicacies, sip tea, practice our designs on paper, then on each other, and finally make batches of mehendi cones to take home and paint all of our friends.
I have a few minutes before nightfall….the spraypaint calls.
This is all so beauteous that it borders on crazy…….!
no mask? tsk tsk….we should start to hear you speaking in Tongues pretty soon.
I cannot imagine how excited your postperson is to have YOU on the route.
queue Napolean Dynamite …voice:
“Lucky”……
I love you and this blog! Everyday when I check it I hope you have posted something new! You inspire me, motivate me and crack me up! I enjoy your marvelous work and life adventures.
It’s getting to be fun just to see what you are covering the addresses up with. You are too funny. I could see these stenciled works of art very large framed in a gallery some place.
MISS MOSS!!! First, AWESOME work!! Second, where in the world can I score some of the hand stencils??!!! Pleeeze tell me!! I am just beginning the spray paint thang, and you are one helluva inspiration!!
Chandra
…sometimes I can’t even leave a comment because my mouth hangs open and I think maybe I drool when I visit here….so excuse my poor manners…
You’re not wearing a mask? First it was the gloves, learned the hard way….now the mask. I’m sure you’ve blown your nose at least once and saw hot pink or black. Am I right? GET ONE. And before we have to talk about other spray mishaps let’s be clear you should also be wearing an apron. How are the clothes pins working?
These offerings are divine. You’re killing me with the Mehendi. AWESOME.