Resurrection Rags
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Forget your perfect offering, ring the bells that still can ring, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
Female
50 years old
PORTLAND, Oregon
United States
Last Login: 10/24/2009
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Excellent! Homemade Vegan Liquid Soaps
Made by my friends
Lou and Leif of Inland Fog
Our Intentions
Every soap we make has a drop of "Best Intentions" added.
Best Intentions is our wish
for peace and prosperity
for you
and the earth we all walk upon.
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Reaching For My Self
Digital Collage By Charlotte Self
I am currently honing my skills in the art of digital collage, under the guidance of my very patient boyfriend, business and life partner, and best of all,best friend and fellow artist, Kenneth Rougeau of http://Synchronicity313.etsy.com . I've found this new medium to be an extremely fulfilling way to express myself the way I've always wanted to do with my art.
I've always wanted to do surrealist collages, because I want my work to speak the language of the soul. In addition to my obsession with this great new medium, which is destined to only get better, Ken and I decided at some point to offer the images we had collected to other collage artists and crafters on the net. So we opened up ourPaper Street Digital Collage Sheets Store on Etsy to supply high quality copyright-free images for traditional Paper or Digital Collage Arts, Altered Art, Assemblage, Photo Charm and Altered Art Pendant crafters, Aceo Artists, handmade Greeting Card Artists, journal-ers and scrapbook fun-addicts.
OLD Project notebook
and a photo of my very, very, very, first sale
handmade OOAK Hippie Top
1989
I have been resurrecting used clothing since the 1980's out of sheer necessity. I took the clothes in my closet and "deconstructed" them because I desperately wanted something different to wear, had out grown all of my nice clothes, and had no money to buy more. I also love to make jewelry from vintage lace and findings, paint in acrylic on canvas, Jeans and deconstructed hand made handbags, I make small quilts,write poetry, and I love my blog, and my journal, I am currently working on an art and poetry journal with hopes to publish some day
(a girl can dream can't she?).
Metamorphosis
Digital Collage By Charlotte Self
| | Music | She Dances With Butterflies
Digital Collage
By Charlotte Self
i love music -damien rice, kt tunstall, tori amos, grateful dead, bob dylan, cowboy junkies, LEONARD COHEN!!!! "he's my man" Indian tantric, native american, drumming, chanting, and flutes, techno -trance, egyptian, bellydance music from any country.too many to list all
| | Movies | The Bride
Digital Collage
By Charlotte Self
The movies which have inspired my work and my art are, so numerous, I love period pieces with elaborate costumes, edwardian, victorian, and fantasy--Titanic, The Cat's Meow, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frida, The Hours, Great expectations ,(i love the story and the art work) What Dreams May Come, Camille Claudelle, i could just keep going......movies about artists, The movie "Pret-a-porter" inspired me in the 90's in that it gave me an idea of the rediculousness, of the fashion industry, and there was a statistic which stuck in my head, and i can't remember the numbers now, but the tonage of clothing, and waste material that goes into the landfill every year from the clothing manufacturing industry is outrageous, not to mention the things people throw away because they are no longer the trend...... | | Heroes | Pencil Sketch of Kenneth Rougeau
The first time I saw his face (on myspace BTW)
I had to sketch it right away
Who Are You
Illustration for
Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland"
Digital Collage
By Kenneth Rougeau
Last year Kenneth Rougeau (my favorite artist and boyfriend)illustrated and self published Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland",with a series of 18 of his amazing digital collages, the first in a series of faerie tale and fantasy, literary works he plans to illustrate. He's currently working on his next project Lewis Carroll's, "Through the Looking Glass". So far he has six in the series completed.
If you would like to see more of his work you can find it at http://synchronicity313.etsy.com
Miss Secretary
Digital Collage
By Kenneth Rougeau
In the fashion industry,my heros are---Betsy Johnson, Matthew Williamson, Koos van den Akker, Natalie Channin, who started, "Project Alabama", Mara Hoffman, Anna Sui, a local, enigmatic, woman named Elle, who gifted me my first box of vintage slips, 1940's bias cut nightgowns, which i wore as dresses,and victorian bloomers, cotton, silk satin, and cotton voile! and several beautiful bed jackets, she was my first real inspiration, she was deconstructing in the 1970's making the truly lush delicious hippie clothes in Miami like Janis use to wear, lots of purple velvet and blue satin!!!!! and her friend Phyliss who owned a shop called Chelsea Morning, in Coconut Grove when it was the hippie, artist mecca, of Miami, almost everything in her store was white cotton, or gauzey,victorian inspired, lacey, silky, satiney, wonderful wonderful stuff,(can you tell i liked it? )
my Grandmother and Grandfather,they always had their car trunk full of fabrics, and both of them made clothing. Gustav Klimt, Georgia Okeef, Freida Kahlo, My big sister, who has become an independant and beautiful woman, my children who love me truly for who i am,.... I have too many heros, aren't we all heros to each other?
My son, Dylan, who is now 8 years old
and an amazing little artist in his own right.
This is one of my favorite photos of him.
He has truly brought me
JOY!
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Resurrection Rags's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 5' 6" / Slim / Slender | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | INDIE ARTIST /DESIGNER |
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http://paperstreet.etsy.com
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http://paperstreet.artfire.com
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About me:
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. -Emerson
I am a mother,artist, poet, and entrepreneur.
Burning
An Illustrated Poem
By Charlotte Self
Pieces Of Me
Digital Collage By Charlotte Self
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Pandemic
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