I just got finished making some coffee and the leftover coffee grounds looked suspiciously liked the burnt organic matter I used to make my black beads. (I’m fascinated by detritus.) I poured the grounds onto my wax-paper covered worktable. I’m waiting for the grounds to cool. (They smell heavenly!) I’ll probably mix in a little ground myrrh and see what luscious scent it produces, then I’ll go a-bead making.
Speaking of scented beads, I just returned a book by the Metropolitan Museum of Art called (what else?) Metropolitan Jewelry. I returned the book because I was disappointed by the paltry offerings of African, Asian, Native American, and Latino jewelry but the book did have interesting information about pre-Industrial Age scented jewelry in Europe. Moving on.
I’m currently enraptured by Wired Magazine’s article on the new Steven Spielberg/Michael Bay
TRANSFORMERS movie. Wired writers, in general, are a very talented bunch and they really stoke my enthusiasm for imaging a better future through technology. Speaking of the future, while traipsing around the internet, I discovered the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson. What resonated with me was Hershman Leeson’s own description of her influences in genetics, robotics, and nanotechnology that informed her own passion for what she calls “techno-human identity”. (I think Hershman Leeson and I may have been separated at birth. Oh, and on a totally unrelated note, I’m listening to Feeling Good by the late, great Nina Simone and playing around with making incense. It smells like myrrh-cinnamon-ginger around here. Mmm.)
