One May activity was my Beyond the Borders (BTB) group's participation in the 4th annual "Empty Bowls Houston." For those who've never heard of Empty Bowls, it is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople across the country to feed the hungry in their communities. For a $25.00 donation, you receive a simple lunch of soup, bread and water, and can then select a bowl from hundreds of one-of-a-kind, handcrafted bowls donated by Houston area ceramists and craft artists, including my BTB Art Quilt group. This is our first year to participate.
Our guidelines were simple: create a bowl using any medium desired. There were suggested dimensions given, but bowls of all shapes and sizes were accepted. The bowls themselves need not be usable as soup bowls either.
I wanted to create an original bowl, not following any set pattern, and was inspired by a pair of my son's jeans that were in need of patch repair on the knee (again!).
Needless to say, the jeans are now shorts!
My bowl will not hold liquids without developing a slow leak and may be the only collapsible bowl this year at Empty Bowls. My one goof: I forgot to sign it ... oops. It went to a new home that day -- so perhaps the new owner will happen across my blog and say "hello" .... it's possible, right?
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