CartEssenza - Papier Maché Jewellery: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Treasures #1 & #2: papier maché and sea treasures

Continues CartEssenza's Treasures Collection: after Treasures #1 - A Siren's Necklace here you can see two other papier maché and sea tresures necklaces

one of a kind pieces for contemporary sirens ♥

For infos you can write me at cartessenza[at]libero.it

Treasures #2 - "White sand, feather"

Return tomorrow for more photos...here is a little preview:

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

CartEssenza @ Festa dell'Unicorno 2013 - Vinci (Fi)

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July 2013

CartEssenza will be with her little stand at the beautiful

Festa dell'Unicorno

in Vinci (Florence)

In addition to the medieval-fantasy market, in which you will find me, there will be a lot of events; all infos on event's web channels:

Festa dell'Unicorno Official Site
Official Facebook Page
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Eco-Packaging CartEssenza - PT 1: little recycled paper bags

RECYCLE IS ALSO PACKAGING ♥

CartEssenza said stop to plastic gift bags, preferring a bit more work to have its own handmade recycled paper ones! ;)

Next step: business cards and bookmarks! Any ideas or hints on how to make them? :)

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Monday, July 8, 2013

Treasures #1 - A Siren's Necklace

Text: "The Silence of Sirens" - Franz Kafka
Photos by Riccardo Massimo Mantero - Rimama ♥

"Proof that inadequate, even childish measures, may serve to rescue one from peril. To protect himself from the Sirens Ulysses stopped his ears with wax and had himself bound to the mast of his ship. Naturally any and every traveller before him could have done the same, except those whom the Sirens allured even from a great distance; but it was known to all the world that such things were of no help whatever. The song of the Sirens could pierce through everything, and the longing of those they seduced would have broken far stronger bonds than chains and masts. But Ulysses did not think of that, although he had probably heard of it. He trusted absolutely to his handful of wax and his fathom of chain, and in innocent elation over his little stratagem sailed out to meet the Sirens."

"Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing has never happened, still it is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never. Against the feeling of having triumphed over them by one's own strength, and the consequent exaltation that bears down everything before it, no earthly powers could have remained intact. And when Ulysses approached them the potent songstresses actually did not sing, whether because they thought that this enemy could be vanquished only by their silence, or because of the look of bliss on the face of Ulysses, who was thinking of nothing but his wax and his chains, made them forget their singing. But Ulysses, if one may so express it, did not hear their silence; he thought they were singing and that he alone did not hear them. For a fleeting moment he saw their throats rising and falling, their breasts lifting, their eyes filled with tears, their lips half-parted, but believed that these were accompaniments to the airs which died unheard around him. Soon, however, all this faded from his sight as he fixed his gaze on the distance, the Sirens literally vanished before his resolution, and at the very moment when they were nearest to him he knew of them no longer."

"But they--lovelier than ever--stretched their necks and turned, let their cold hair flutter free in the wind, and forgetting everything clung with their claws to the rocks. They no longer had any desire to allure; all that they wanted was to hold as long as they could the radiance that fell from Ulysses' great eyes. If the Sirens had possessed consciousness they would have been annihilated at that moment. But they remained as they had been; all that had happened was that Ulysses had escaped them. A codicil to the foregoing has also been handed down. Ulysses, it is said, was so full of guile, was such a fox, that not even the goddess of fate could pierce his armor. Perhaps he had really noticed, although here the human understanding is beyond its depths, that the Sirens were silent, and opposed the afore-mentioned pretense to them and the gods merely as a sort of shield."