i had no idea what this could possibly mean “formulated figure” i am so busy at work that my out of box thinking has temporarily left me. i thought we’d have to draw the figure based upon a computation or formula. i like the true translation. oddly enough we’ve been carrying around figures and photographing them for years.. we were inspired by the movie Amelie where the father’s gnome was stolen, then sent traveling with post cards being sent back to the father to inspire him to travel.
i hated that i missed the class presentations, i wanted to see what fun everyone had toting their figures around and taking their photos. my work load has really gotten heavy and the powers that be decide that another project needs to be done, it has precedence over the already assigned projects…it’s the vicious cycle of the corporate world. don’t get me wrong, i love my work (my manager is fantastic), but the load can get to be too much (i’m not the only one worn out in my group)..all this stress and tension does help produce artwork, it can hinder it too (at least in attendance). grrr…any way enough ‘wah-ing” it does make one feel better to pull out the ol’ soapbox, but there’s a time to step off….
my “gnome” is Steed. He is a small stuffed monkey given to me by my mother on the first christmas without our father in 2002. i am in the habit of collectingmonkeys (amongst other things) and it was nice to see that despite the immense sorrow she was experiencing, she was still able to find humor in finding a present. He was immediately deemed as my traveling gnome.
He was named “Steed” (thusly deemed as a boy) when i found a small bowler (from a tiny bottle of english gin) in a present store in san franciso. This was our first trip together and as fate would have it, here we are in a store and there sit hundreds of bowlers just his size…”Steed” is the character John Steed from The Advengers (a campy, British secret agent show from the 60′s). He wore a bowler, sometimes used it as a weapon.
