Inspire 52 - Week 27. Portland Blue Butterfly Project

Week 27 = 27 July

"On 27 July, 2692 handmade blue butterflies will be studded all over the High Angle Battery in Portland as part of 'Doldrum's Lair'.

To celebrate the unique Cretaceous Silver Studded Blue Butterfly which is only found in Portland, local artists and members of the public are coming together to create a butterfly to represent every young inhabitant of Portland. To make this possible, we'd like you to help make a butterfly.

This project is part of Battle for the Winds, which is managed by Activate Performing Arts in partnership with Portland Community Partnership and will form part of the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Doldrum's Lair project is kindly funded by the Arts Council." Lorna Rees - Portland Blue Butterfly Project

portlandbluebutterfly.blogspot.co.uk/

And so I set about making some inky blue butterflies this week ...

 

 

Portland Blue Butterfly

Fly oh fly through the winds of the blue seas,

Across waters emerging waves sprinkling sweet life

To the door of the earth connecting with winged keys,

As the mists flutter softly into the sky.

Hazel Evans July 2012

 

 

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And so here we are  ... 20 butterflies, ready to fly into the sky and join the Portland Blue Butterfly Project... in the post they go ...

Lorna Rees, who is managing the project is an awesomely creative and inspiring person - we have crossed paths on many occasions as she also works at Lighthouse a lot with Activate Performing Arts, so I was delighted to hear about this project and thought it would be great to contribute some inkyness for the project as feature it as part of Inspire 52. Indeed there is no better timing than this week to have done this - Week 27 and the launch of the butterfly project is 27th - Couldn't have timed it better, even if I do say so myself!

... I hope you like my butterflies Lorna :-)

It has been great to create a new piece outside of my work on The Monochronium, but to still use the bluey black inky has been great ... I'm loving this ink ... The poem just came to me as I was in the zone - just zoning out with the butterflies, imagining them fluttering over the Portland landscape, in the headlands on the coastline.

Other than blue butterflies ... this week has bought me new challenges in the form of moving house and getting torn ankle ligaments in left ankle ... I have certainly some interesting blue tones going on on my ankle which can be seen as 'interesting'! ... and, oh the joy of crutches and moving around about 4x slower than usual ... it certainly gives you a new perspective on everyday whereabouts ... I wonder if this will have implications on next weeks Inspire 52?

Elevation Embarkation