While the original Faberge eggs created between 1885 and 1917 for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and his son Nicholas II, were crafted using enameled precious metals and jewels, my egg found its genesis in flowers, green plants splattered with raindrops, a wooden picket fence, and liberal use of my favorite artistic medium, Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Today is the start of another of Detroit's wonderful outdoor weekend festivals: the Detroit Festival of the Arts. Of all the summer festivals, this is the most ambitious...and the most entertaining for all ages, ethnicities, tastes, and economic backgrounds. First of all, it's totally free. Secondly, it covers eight blocked-off city blocks in Detroit's Cultural Center, the entire campus of Wayne State University for the Creative Children's Fair, and special activities in all the museums. In addition to artists' booths filled with all kinds of treasures, local, national and international stage and street performers offer music, dance, theatre, poetry, humor and indescribable, often outrageous, talents. Just check out some photos I posted of the Spanish performance artists Osadia on my blog last year to see what I mean! I'm still trying to decide whether I should let them "do" me again this year. It took my husband Ed a half hour of painful pulling and twisting to get those wires out of my hair that night! So my question is: Is "beauty" worth the pain?
So this will be another weekend of straight photos here at Patricia's PAD, but I promise to do my best to keep you entertained. How could I not, with such amazing subjects to photograph?!?
