Chilly Posted September 23, 2017 Report Share Posted September 23, 2017 As promised, it's 30 minutes past midnight on 24 September 2017, exactly three months until Christmas Eve, so here is your next community challenge: Wherever you live/work/play, if you're in Europe, the US or an "ex-British-colony/commonwealth country you can't escape christmas. So this challenge is to create a piece of work that symbolises the christmas season for you. Whether it's religious, non-religious, fantasy, ironic. Whatever. As a devout atheist, for me, christmas is the time when too many people get into debt buying gifts for people who don't want or need them, so I'm going to make a money box, filled with IOUs. What will you make? You have until santa starts his deliveries to put your pictures somewhere. (I'll check Joel's original rules and repeat them here later/soon.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 Fun FUn@! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 Cool... Just for fun I turned to Wikipedia to set me straight on what Christmas, and "the Christmas season" is, is not, might be, or has evolved into. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas Given that Christmas and the season of Christmastide are undeniably and explicitly a Christian affair, however much celebrated by non-Christians throughout the ages, this challenge may become especially....well....challenging. Equally challenging to the thought process (mine, anyway) is the call for the creation of a symbolic piece, which inescapably involves introspection, belief systems, critical thinking, and art and cultural histories, at a minimum. Maybe even Jungian archetypes and the collective unconscious! I expect all manner of fun will be had researching accurate meanings of symbolic, symbol, and symbolism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricetra Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Here is my snow man incense cone holder , Yes cone goes in his pipe and you can keep the unused cones in his head under his hat.....see next post for pic...:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricetra Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Sorry had to resize the image . I didnt think about it when I glazed the inside of his head with Terracolour MarsMoon, May not have been the most suitable LOL xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 4 hours ago, tricetra said: Sorry had to resize the image . I didnt think about it when I glazed the inside of his head with Terracolour MarsMoon, May not have been the most suitable LOL xxx Looks like someone was busy harvesting snowman brains! Nice pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 @Tricetra -Definitely filled with symbolism, innuendo, and metaphoric implications, in addition to incense cones! He's so cute. Was your Mars in Moon or your Moon in Mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidpotter Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 Really hoping to see something krampus related! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 As a devout Pastafarian the holidays are a time to spend with loved ones eating and drinking too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricetra Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 On 9/25/2017 at 6:39 PM, LeeU said: @Tricetra -Definitely filled with symbolism, innuendo, and metaphoric implications, in addition to incense cones! He's so cute. Was your Mars in Moon or your Moon in Mars? Hi Lee, The glaze is by Terracolour and is called Mars Moon. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebekah Krieger Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 On 9/26/2017 at 8:07 PM, Davidpotter said: Really hoping to see something krampus related! Ooh sounds like you know what your making! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yappystudent Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 As a tree-hugging pagan nihilist crazy cat lady I'm torn between which approach to take. I celebrate in a very minor way both the solstice for religious purposes and a made up secular personal holiday I call "Xmus" pronounced "Exmuss" which is closer to Seinfeld's "Festivus" if you're familiar. I'll probably just take a photo of some of my ornaments I'll be trying to peddle and call it a day. A Festivus for the rest of us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted February 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2018 Oh dear. I'm sorry. I completely forgot about this challenge and didn't even get my own finished. My excuse is that my dad was taken into hospital on 4 December, he came home on 20th and was re-admitted on Christmas Eve and passed away on 29 December. For most of November and all of December I spent time with him every day, and completely forgot about this challenge. Mind you, apart from #Tricetra, it seems no-one else remembered or took up the challenge anyway. I guess the challenges wore out their welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted February 28, 2018 Report Share Posted February 28, 2018 Sorry to hear about your dad passing away Life is a strange part of death. It's a shame they didn't work, I think there is something that would work but I am never sure what that would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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