I am in the process of trying to organize some of my art stuff. It's been a huge mess out there in the studio for about a year now... and it's really getting to me. I am normally a very organized person... but with all the chaos going on this past year... this is one area where things really got out of control.
And so... I am trying to at least organize stuff into groupings... and from there... decide what stays and what goes. It is almost like a treasure hunt ... I am finding all kinds of things that I forgot I had... or made... or was gifted.

The photo for today's post... is of an art piece that I did a few months ago. It was inspired by a class I took with artist Cynthia Cook... and it is made from an Altoids tin that had been laying in the desert for a long time. I embellished it with glass, glitter, and photos from a photo journal essay on the plight of survivors of Katrina... and how some of them are making art from the surviving wreckage.

*photo and art piece by Elaine A. Russell