In Folklore, the witching hour or devil’s hour is the time of
night when supernatural creatures are thought to be their most powerful, a time
of magic and mischief. One of our favorite musicals is “Wicked” the untold
story or the re-imagining of “The Wizard of Oz.”
More recently I’ve started following “Nocturne” a storytelling show that
explores the night, the landscape of the unseen, and how thoughts, feelings and
behaviors transform in the dark. These are the inspirations for this
instillation.
Supplies:
Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts-ATC Shrine - Time,
Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts-Trading Coin Covers
Halloween, Metallic Green Acrylic Paints,
Paintbrush, TH Distress Stain Crushed Olive, Allure Forest Foliage Embossing
Powder, Heat Tool, Weldbond, Photocopy of Witch, Glossy Accents, Skull Stamp,
Black Permanent Ink Pad, Transparency Scrap, Scrap TH
Abandoned Paper, Circle Template, Pen, Watercolors, Paper Clay, Metal
Clamps, TH Clock Key, Screwdriver
1. Cover all
pieces of Gypsy Soul
Laser Cuts-ATC Shrine - Time with a variety of green Metallic
Paints. Do this quickly and randomly use a dry brush technique.
2. Once dry, fill in any empty spaces with TH Crushed Olive Distress Stain.
3. Working
quickly before pieces dry, sprinkle with Allure Forest Foliage Embossing
Powders.
4. Cure with a
Heat Tool.
5. Assemble GSLC ATC Time Shrine and secure with Weldbond.
6. Make a
photocopy of a witch of your choosing. Decide what type of material you want to
print it on.
7. Cut and
secure to inside of GSLC ATC Time Shrine using Glossy Accent as an adhesive.
Once in gently coat photocopy with a thin layer of Glossy Accent.
8. Use a skull
stamp and black permanent ink to make a transparency to put behind clock face.
9. Trace with
a circle template and glue to a Scrap of TH Abandoned Paper using Weldbond.
10.
Take apart Gypsy Soul
Laser Cuts-Trading Coin Covers Halloween.
Trimmed cat on fence so that I could use it inside the shrine.
11.
Paint coin covers with watercolors.
12.
Use a metallic green paint to paint the edges of
coin covers.
13.
Use a bit of paper clay to make a ledge to secure
cat on a fence piece inside the shrine. Securing with Weldbond.
14.
Paint with green paint and sprinkle with Allure
Forest Foliage Embossing Powder and Set with a Heat Tool.
15.
Attach two Coin covers to clock face, one inside and
one outside. Secure in place with metal clamps.
16.
Once dry add a TH Clock
Key as a handle securing with a Screwdriver and adding a bit of Weldbond.
Some Final
Thoughts. I like the idea of magic and mischief cohabiting in the midnight
hours and re-imaging long-held perspectives. Wicked Quotes: “Everyone Deserves the Chance
to Fly”
“I’ve heard it said that people come into our
lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, we are led to those who
help us grow the most if we let them, and we help them in return. Well, I don’t
know if that is true. But I know I am today because I knew you.”
“The trouble with school is they always teach
the wrong lesson. Believe me, I’ve been kicked out of enough to know. They want
you to become less callow, less shallow, But I say ‘Why invite stress in? Stop
studying strife and learn to live the unexamined life.’”
I have several favorite episodes of “Nocturne”
among them being “I’m a Monster” a gay man journey into embracing his true self
as he portrays a monster in haunted attractions, “Finding the Void” about a
secret apartment hidden in the bowels of a giant mall, and “Blackfish” the
story of Malcolm Saunders, a fishermen from Cornwall, on the southern tip of
the UK. These a just a few of my most revisited episodes.
