Day of Souls

Devil face and Reina de las Rosas skull face

polymer clay sculptures by Rosa Phoenix

I made these faces with colored Sculpey (polymer clay). Tin foil is the base underneath. Sculpey is fun to play with, very easy and it doesn't make a mess. To harden it, you simply bake it in the oven. With the colored Sculpey, no painting is required. I glued magnets to the backs and made them refrigerator magnets. I think that I should do something else with them, though. One day maybe, I will make dolls, and these will be the faces. Wouldn't that be cool, Day of the Dead dolls?

Earth Awareness

Earth sculpture by Rosa Phoenix

One small blue-green planet in the vastness of space. 

One Earth, one sky, one water, shared by all of us. 

When one part of the body is poisoned, the whole body is sickened.

It is hard to comprehend the magnitude of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  

In the news, I keep hearing about the costs of this disaster in terms of how much money is being lost, and how many lawsuits are being brought against BP. 

To me, discussing this in monetary terms doesn't have enough significance. 

We humans could never manufacture enough money to compensate for the loss of precious water, habitat, land, animals and plant life. 

What could be more valuable to us, than that which gives us life? 

These are not things that we can buy or create ourselves. 

No legal action can correct this. 

I would not trade clean air, water and soil for any amount of money, yet frequently that is the trade-off that is being made.

I've just learned that a second oil rig overturned in the Gulf of Mexico:

http://current.com/green/92407341_breaking-second-oil-rig-overturns-in-lousiana-threatening-inland-waters.htm

Current.com/green is a good source for environmental news.

I hope that all people will take this disaster to heart, and consider our relationship to all life on Earth.

Easter Bunny and Earth Egg

Happy Easter!

This sweet little bunny was given to me by my friend.   

The bunny is holding a mini Earth sculpture I made from polymer clay. 

Earth Day is this month too!

here is Earth in a basket

resting on azurite balls

in the background is a metal sculpture of a turtle

Earth in a glass cup

an interesting reflection appears

on Earth's surface

it looks like an angel

. . . . .

here is World Mother

do you see the egg?

eggs and bunnies celebrate fertility

the babies of spring

World Mother

painting by Rosa Phoenix