Thursday, February 27, 2014

Nine Noes and a Golden Yes



As I said in my last blog post, I am a Yes-girl rather than a No-girl.  Saying yes has got me places so far.  I have almost always regretted saying No (although fortunately for me I have not said No that often).

This piece plays with the word No in nine different languages – from top to bottom, they are: Czech, Japanese, Danish/Swedish, Portuguese, Hungarian, French, Russian, German, Welsh.  The Yes is of course in English, and emphasized by both size and brightness of colour. 

The piece is 9” by 27” and I have used fused appliqué for the letters.



And here is a close-up detail:



4 comments:

  1. How fun Alicia! I admire you, I want to become more of a yes-girl like you! Who knows what great adventures one misses when we say no...

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  2. It can be frightening too, Lisa-Marie, but I found that it has been always worth it...

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  3. A great angle, Alicia…..it reminded me of a song my son had when he was little - something about traveling round the world and they listed no in many languages. Isn't there a language that has no word for the word no? Regardless, yes is definitely more fun!

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  4. Thank you for showing us so many Noes in different languages! It's very interesting and the first letter of all of them are N!

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