eye candy (visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding) "he wanted to put some eye candy on their web site"
Slang: a person or thing that is visually pleasing or superficially attractive and lacking depth of intellect or meaning.
'Nuff said.
The other phrase I heard this week was "the architecture of sleep." It struck me as poetic, although the subject is hardly that. It refers to the sleep cycles we all go through, but I love it.
The week was a blur till yesterday, when I escaped again to my real studio. Sigh of relief! I carried a huge bag of leftover blocks; many several decades old. I intended to spread them out, sort them,and see if there was fodder for reinventing them into something funky, along the lines of the Cinderella quilts I wrote about in the current issue of Art Quilting Studio.
Alas, so much for good intentions. My roommate Francesca was in and since we hadn't seen each other in weeks, we spent the first hour yakking and catching up. Then it was lunchtime. By the time she got down to printmaking and I sorted the blocks, half the day was gone. I found, after all, that even though I don't do that stuff any more, I was too attached to the older blocks to touch them. Orphans I had made as experiments, just to see if I could make a block from the Kansas City Star.
Some were pieced by hand, but most were machine pieced. I love these block patterns, too. Would I ever make them again? Not likely. obviously, the one on the upper left was from my Nanny's blanket covers. The fabrics were scraps she brought home from the dress factory where she worked during and after the war. So how can I do anything with them? The other non-vintage ones, maybe.
I threw the string blocks at the wall and then decided to trim them and sew them together. One of my studio mates walked in, saw these blocks on the wall and said in a shocked tone, "these are so traditional!"
