I work in the Anthropology Department at Rice University. Tomorrow is my supervisor's birthday. She loves butterflies. I cut out butterfly shapes from one of our department's old books. I was able to find some pages with skeletons and hieroglyphics on them. I added some butterflies cut from colored papers. I cut out the center of a large paper plate and stapled the butterflies around the rim. It needed MORE so I cut the rim off a smaller paper plate, covered it with butterflies and added it to the top.
The dots on the butterflies are holes punched out of the leftover colored paper. I wrote "Happy Birthday" on a large butterfly and put it in the center of the wreath.
She hasn't seen it yet because it's on the back of her office door. I won't be in tomorrow. Guess I'll have to call her and tell her to check out the back of her door.
I love "found object" art that now seems to be called "upcycling." I was happy to find a good use for a discarded textbook!
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