process: green & purple

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ An aluminum foil cupcake tray holds a selection of beads, most of them either purple or green, and a driftwood stick. ]

Way back in fifth grade, I got into a HUGE argument with another kid about wearing green & purple clothing together. She insisted that they clashed & should not EVER be worn at the same time. I thought I looked JUST FINE, THANK YOU. We agreed that the final arbiter should be that true icon of fashion, our teacher.

Poor dude was probably in his 50s (at least that’s how I’m translating my view of him at the time, which was ‘old’). He wore plaid shirts & tan slacks. He knew he was OUT OF HIS DEPTH.

I don’t know if he was actually colour-blind or just claimed he was, but either way, well done, sir. He disclaimed any ability to judge in this circumstance & left it to us to decide our clothing preferences.

All of this is to say that YEAH THEY DO TOO NEITHER GO TOGETHER SO THERE.

Anyway I got outside for Woods Day this week & alllllmost finished a Faery Home Decor piece, except that I ran out of 12g wire, but all I gotta do yet is the hook for the top, so that’s easy.

I messed with a more complex shape for the wire — I’ve been doing that more often lately, doing more than just a simple drape.

[ A length of thick copper wire, curved into a rough u-shape; the right side bends, again, towards the center and then back out. ]

… which gives me more scope for more complicated adornment.

[ Thin silvery-grey wire has been wrapped all round the thick wire, holding small purple beads in place at intervals. Three dangly pieces, each with a green stone chip bead, hang from the bottom of the u-shape; some of the thin wire crosses above them, from one side of the u to the other, holding three more green beads interspersed with small purple and silver ones. ]

& that’s when I got focused enough I forgot to take more pictures, so, well, here we are.

[ The bit I described above now hangs from the piece of driftwood. A spiral made from the same thick wire is suspended between the top ends of the u-shape. The driftwood itself hangs from another piece of thick copper wire, this one bent into a smooth inverted U. ]

Just gotta make the hook for the top & it’ll be done! I think I’ll call it YEAH THEY DO TOO NEITHER GO TOGETHER SO THERE.

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Comments

[azurelunatic]

Barney-Purple and Barney-Green are going to fight, because they're both so aggressive. Other shades have some discretion and will work it out between themselves.

[kellan_the_tabby]

I mean sure but Barney-anything don't count as 'colours' so much as 'colours out of space' so I ain't worried about those.

[ryl]

Purple and green totally go together.

[kellan_the_tabby]

RIGHT,

[librarygeek]

I had a ball gown/prom dress that was purple 💜 with green 💚 accents. THAT was 30 years ago, so there to the naysayers! It was renaissance style, with a crumb catcher bodice and over and under skirts.

I can't stand most modern dress wear. I prefer a tailcoat, medieval, renaissance, or even steampunk to what passes as appropriate these days. (Yes, I have a cane when needed and can wield it like singlestick. 🤣😉)

[kellan_the_tabby]

oooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I bet that was GORGEOUS

also I really REALLY want a good tailcoat

[ng_moonmoth]

Any genderqueer person comfortable enough in their identity to wear it in public can tell you that their flag colors demonstrate that green and purple go together quite well, thanks.

I once was attending an SF convention with a top and a reasonably complete set of jewelry in those colors. Got a big gender win when a panelist at a gender panel I was attending asked whether the colors of my outfit were significant, and I could respond affirmatively and thank them for noticing. Which led to a very nice extended conversation.

[kellan_the_tabby]

*applause*

Also I'm TERRIBLY amused that apparently I anticipated the creation of the genderqueer flag by ... a lot. A lot of years.

[cassini]

[++ yesss purple and green have been together in my life since i was an innocent primary schooler* so its existential canon were just attuned to ]

[* *does a google...* 2010 design on the genderqueer flag? pls correct if wrong. yeah we were a few years ahead *vague handwaves at the exact years* ]

[kellan_the_tabby]

yeah there-ish? but I was in fifth grade in approx 1983 so

[cassini]

[hehe lets not worry about what i was doing... er... pre-2020 its a mystery ]

[anyway! second comment today where i Forgot the bit: excellent work, i really like the top arc where you got too focused Σ:3 is that dark green shards of glass in the middle of that loop ]

[kellan_the_tabby]

time is extremely fake, also thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu

[roselightfairy]

I love these process pieces! This is so gorgeous!

[kellan_the_tabby]

thank youuuuuuuuuuuu

[danabren]

Excuse ME but purple and green were common as a color combination in the European middle ages, and also part of a marvelously elegant Heian summer combination.

Also, go look at a fucking Iris germanica, okay?

[kellan_the_tabby]

THIS VERY THIS