The flags are out!

You might think this is because of the celebrations just mentioned in my previous blog post but John had hung these Tibetan prayer flags up when I was away teaching on Wednesday so they greeted me on arrival home. He hung them so that I can keep looking at them from my studio.

When I went to the Tibetan Centre at the end of May I bought these together with the flags now hanging at the top of the potting shed with the thought that I wanted to distress them. In various circles there has been a Hang Outside and Distress Things project (known as the Erosion Bundle Project) in which bundles of paper and/or fabric are tightly bound together and hung outside for a season or two in wind, rain and sunshine to make it all look old and vintage.

So when at the Tibetan Centre I bought a long line of prayer flags with unfinished edges to do this with but then decided that we might as well enjoy them while they were being distressed. I had not gotten around to doing anything with them however and John decided to put them up as a surprise. They look great hanging in the trees and it will be ever so interesting to see what they will look like a year from now! By that time I hope to have thought up a art piece to use them in.