false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179971668m/980775.jpg 980775 1 <I>Collect Raindrops</I> celebrates the important things: the change of seasons, slowing down the world for a moment so we can actually taste it, looking up at the stars to dream. Artist Nikki McClure's delicate images exude an optimism that revolves around community, sustenance, parenting, and appreciating both the urban and rural landscape through a visual language that is uniquely her own. <BR><BR>Armed with an X-acto knife, McClure painstakingly cuts out her images from a single sheet of black paper, creating a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture. The delicate nature of her work draws the eye, as each element has to be connected to the one next to it in some way, creating a fragile network of shapes and lines. 965664 1 4 2007 Collect Raindrops: The Seasons Gathered total:80|5:57|4:18|3:5| 80 372 104 19 0 1 false false Fri Jul 13 06:27:19 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 06:32:16 -0700 2007 It'll be in over-sized but I was caught by the simple beauty of image which at the same time must have been excruci...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 06:43:24 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 07:02:07 -0700 2009 All in a Day (a nourishing, beautiful book for all ages).

I was smitten and immediately went foraging in the library catalog to find if there might be something else illustrated by ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 20:00:36 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 20:03:14 -0700 2007 3 0 true false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 17:31:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 17:31:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 09:27:48 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 10:17:53 -0700 2008 Collect Raindrops: the seasons gathered, is a collection of cut-paper art by Washington graphic artist Nikki McClure. The collection evolved out of calendar projects and the illustrations are arranged into four seasons each preceded by an essay alive with the sounds, smells and other sensory a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 05:42:57 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 05:42:57 -0800 2008
This book is beautiful and hard to capture with words.

I want McClure's work all over my house. And ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 18:31:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 18:34:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Feb 24 16:39:27 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:42:16 -0800 2009 Olympia, WA to be exact. Her work is amazing!!!
She takes pieces of black paper & cuts out these exquisite images with such fine detail & then overlays them on light colored paper.]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 09 22:12:06 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 22:15:48 -0700 2009 A pretty fast read...ha ha]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 11 15:05:03 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 03 18:21:55 -0700 2008
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