I didn't have time to even compose an idea for yesterday's WT-recycle for Earth Day. I'm very proud that Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson founded this day and is still remembered for it. I was a senior in high school on the first Earth Day. This is a challenge where I could live forever. I've combined it with the F4A-Marvin Gaye's songs. I chose 'What's Going On?'
This song is a departure for Mr. Gaye from his usual Motown Sound as it is more about personal material. It is still, sadly, relevant today. The song is told from the perspective of a Vietnam vet returning home. I wonder what Mr. Gaye would say about what's going on today...different century, same world. One of the co-writers, Obie Benson, a member of the Four Tops, witnessed violence in Berkeley CA on May 15, 1969 and was very affected by it.
I used an alcohol ink panel that I had painted a while back on a glossy coffee package. Cut the heart by hand and added the sentiment, the lock and the key. Unlock your hearts! The background is a piece of cardboard from the back of a pad of paper, Gessoed, sprayed with black cherry and bronze spray, old music and two pieces from a catalog glued on and some stenciled hearts. The piece in the upper left is a bit covered; it says 'sometimes miracles are simply good people with kind hearts.'
There is a line in the song: 'With the world exploding around me, how am I supposed to keep singing love songs?' I wonder, every single day, what IS going on? I can't imagine what Mr. Gay's father was thinking on April 1. One moment of anger.....many lives affected. This song isn't a protest song, it's a song about love.
Date: Friday, April 23, 2021 GMT Views: 718
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Fri, Apr 23, 2021 @ 10:57 PM
Fab card, Jean. Love the music paper, beautiful a.i. heart and you cut that heart by hand! Yes, let's all start singing! I often think about the way Marvin died. So tragic for all.
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Sat, Apr 24, 2021 @ 12:31 AM
Having listened yesterday to an interview with Tom Jones about his life, this card seems extra appropriate to me this morning. Love the stencilled hearts. And the top sentiment. One time when I was going through a period of depression I bumped into an acquaintance in town. He was between bus-driving shifts and asked me if it's like to join him walking his neighbour's dogs on the beach. Such a small thing, and I still remember the peace of that walk by the sea twenty-something years later.
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Sat, Apr 24, 2021 @ 4:03 AM
Oh my goodness this heart is amazing and the layers and the addition of the key is brilliant and beautiful. I agree I love the recycle challenge and honestly I could do a recycle card every day if I really worked at it a bit.