50/50 Day 43

50/50 day 43 and I am still going. Did not add movement to my pieces (except the inevitable pinwheel!) but did add depth or some 3D elements and used some quilting techniques to add 3D-ness. But something else happened that I did not expect, I began telling stories! I created a piece with a key, then another - the key, the key someone was hunting for it. But what does the key do? Well it opens doors between worlds, hummm, so someone wants to enter worlds not their own... well others do not want that to happen so more pieces, and the story Shelf Life was born. In between postcards a story in images is being told and that is not all, there is another story, a space opera with ray guns, flying saucers, and even war poster propaganda! Wow and the end is in sight, I can't wait to see what happens, will the war end or the planet end up rubble?! And let us all hope that the red minions do not find the key! But with the last piece, they (the red minions- the guys hunting the key) are here in this world but very badly disguised in some kind of costume; is that a bear suit?

Each 50/50 piece was created by me, Leigh Radtke. All are collages; the cut and paste kind. The medium used was paper grocery bags. I cut, re-arrange, and use pieces of bag images, and bags to create new images. Each 50/50 piece was conceptualized; cut, arranged, (not always in that order) glued, and then mounted to a board.