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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

100 words for grown ups

This week's prompt is at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week-33/ and returns to a picture prompt.
Tricky one this week that I wasn't sure how to approach.
After a few failed efforts this is what I have come up with



Sea horse

Casually, she picked up the discarded pieces, her collection ever changing, not long treasured. Never-ceasing undulations smoothed away the roughness leaving muted hues of cream and grey.

Expelled-some in a whisper, others with a roar. Exposed to the elements, stripped bare ,picked clean, desiccated. To a casual observer, no more than flotsam and jetsam, but to the artist- building blocks for his craft.

Painstakingly collected, assembled, twisted, layered, woven. Complex forms created from nature's throw aways.

What was lost, overlooked, cast away ...is now looked upon, admired, celebrated.
The artist's task is done....




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