The great inchie caper continues. Upon further inspection, my boxes of inchies are a nightmare. Lots of them aren't even square. I decided to sort them by those that were bigger than an inch (usable if trimmed), and those smaller than an inch. As you can see, at least they're pretty. (Pretty messed up and irregular that is)! 
So during three hours of sorting I sat and thought about what a person could do with mutant inchies. I decided to name these oddballs ninchies being the "non inchies" that they actually are in the end. The whole endeavor gave me the munchies.
There was a part deep down inside me that considered chucking the entire bunch into the recycling bin. But being a good, ethical artist I simply needed to remind my lazy inner self that my whole mission is to re-use things in exciting and beautiful ways.
Now it's the point in the story where I should encourage us all to embrace the unique qualities of mis-cut paper pieces, that it's important to remain flexible! That kind of do-gooder thinking of course would be complete hypocrisy because I'm having all I can do to be a good sport about this myself. The fact is, I prepped the flat sheets for more than 10 hours. I had a plan for perfectly cut ONE INCH SQUARES. Now, I've got about 500 or 600 potential inchies that need handtrimming and 400-500 ninchies. Lucky me.
So clearly it is my duty to find a use for ninchies which could quite possibly help out the entire mail art world and change the way we think about mistakes. I'll just have to come up with something... because that of course is when miracles happen!
this is hilarious! ninchies! brilliant (and so funny about the munchies..hee). I L.o.v.e your blog!!!!
Posted by: lia | December 18, 2008 at 03:18 PM