Eeh ma tante!!!!!


My ceiling is leaking! And since I have the worst luck in the world, it leaked in only one spot: right above where I keep my works in progress (thank god my portfolio was stored elsewhere!!!!). I was gone when it started and came home to find water dripping off the window sill and into my file cabinet. The result was over 100 sheets of paper bleeding on to each other. Some were ok, but others... not so much. After crying for about an hour, I realized that I could turn my misfortune into an artistic revelation. Several pieces looked kind of cool, dare I say, better than they did originally. So now I'm obsessed with recreating it. My hands may be permanently dyed blue, but hey, you have to suffer for your art, no?

Sidenote: My wonderful, fabulous high school art teacher Rachelle Beaudoin just created "The Berlin Dictionary", a collection of words and phrases (many with French Canadian influences) unique to Berlin NH. Ms. Beaudoin (or Rachelle, as she now tells me to call her, and which I still feel weird about) was one of the first people to recognize something artsy in me, and really encouraged me to pursue it. And this dictionary that she's created is just hilarious. For years friends have made fun of my "made up" words (Eeh ma tante! being one of them). Now I have proof that it's not just me! WMUR recently did a piece on it, which can be viewed here, and the Berlin Dictionary and be purchased here.

Image © Rachelle Beaudoin

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