Saturday, April 3, 2010
title-a-thon-fer-spawn
cabalapod/bridething/sweet breezy/spawn/battledance/witch tender/royal toddler/estrogenie/incubus/memento mori/sticky luck/microsentience/dowager brooch/ripwreath/albino mermaid/sweet outcome/brooch of bewitchment/sea flea/porthole/arbiter/buffalo heart/product of france/puddle sage/oracle bunny/onerous legacy/death ray apparatus/ornament
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Oooo, ripwreath. =)
Nervously crosschecking the urban dictionary....Whew! Nothing. Although if it were listed, it would fall right after ripvanfuckle, which ade me chuckle.
Wait. Isn't the title Spawn?
Yes, show title, and I also used it for one of the paintings.
I was just reading what "product of france" means. I think it was in that new book "Linchpin"? Totally makes sense re painting, but not as perfect as "spawn". . . although. . . I rather fancy "puddle sage."
Okay, last night I realized that Ripwreath can have a very different meaning from what I intended, especially in context of this body of work. And it's a meaning which would most definately be in the Urban Dictionary, had I not coined it myself.
The painting made me think of sad but strange funerary accoutrements. I didn't want to be so obvious as "funerary wreath" or even "RIPwreath", thus "Ripwreath". Weird though how this other connotation (loss of virginity) relates to my original mourning intentions.
I haven't read Linchpin. Can you explain the "Product of France" reference from it? I love when coincidental meanings kick in.
Page 63:
"Why do so many handmade luxury goods come from France?
It's not an accident. It's the work of one man, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. He served under Louis XIV of France in the 1600s and devised a plan to counter the imperialist success of the countries surrounding France. England, Portugal, Spain, and other countries were colonizing the world, and France was being left behind.
So Colbert organized, regulated, and promoted the luxury-goods industry. He understood what wealthy consumers around the world wanted, and he helped French companies deliver it. Let other countries find the raw materials; the French would fashion t, brand it, and sell it back to them as high-priced goods.. . . . "
". . . "Made in France" came to mean something (and still does, more than three hundred years later) because of the "made" part. Mechanizing and cheapening the process would have made it easy for others to copy. Relying on humanity made it difficult - it made the work done in France scarce, and scarcity creates value."
Oooo, thanks Steven.
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