Chipperfield + company

Family. Some of my favourite people in the entire world. Always a gift and a pleasure to be with them...any time. This long delayed family portrait is bittersweet in many ways, but brings renewal and joy as well. Here is a teaser with just a few of the shots from the afternoon together.

 

 

 

xoxo

Jen

Fortune 82

FORTUNE

Dreams of paint dripping and pretty girls, 

gold gilding,sparkles and pretty swirls.

Elements of mystery with layers unfolding,

reaching to snare you into beholding

the wonders.

I collect fortunes.  Those tiny slips of paper tucked in to a tasty little bit of cookie.  Over the last few years, I have amassed a substantial collection, knowing that they would become art.  I regularly think about the many ways to work with them and yet, when I sit down to create, they stymy me.  They sit in their bag, taunting me with their messages. Until today.  This one leaped out of the pile and spoke to me. The Fortune series has begun. The dictionary defines Fortune as:

1 often capitalized : a hypothetical force or personified power that unpredictably determines events and issues favorably or unfavorably

2 obsolete : accident, incident

3 a : prosperity attained partly through luck : success b : luck 1 c plural : the turns and courses of luck accompanying one's progress (as through life) fortunes varied but she never gave up

4: destiny, fate fortune; also : a prediction of fortune

I love all the different elements of this definition. Here is where we begin, at Fortune 82

 

 

 

xo

Jen