Folk Festival

The 60th Annual Florida Folk Festival: on film.

Summer in the North

Hello family and friends!

I have an exciting opportunity this summer that I want to share with all of you. 

For the entire month of July I will be in Greeley, Colorado working with a church called Atlas Theater, helping with their art ministry program! This is super exciting for so many reasons. Tim and Betony Coons, along with their two little girls, Lucy and Harriet, are generously welcoming me into their home while I'm there. Tim is the worship pastor at Atlas and is one of the musicians that is a part of Enter the Worship Circle. Betony is a mom, an artist, and an art teacher and from what I can tell, she is incredible at all three. I know that the Lord has a lot to teach me through this family and I truly cannot wait to meet them. I'll also get to learn about how this community of believers is using art to bring people together and show God's beautiful love. I couldn't have dreamed of a better summer. 

One big thing I need a little help with is gas money. Yes, that's right. 

Driving from Florida to Colorado in three days!

So I'm asking for donations to help me get out there. I know this is sort of different than your typical fundraising for a mission trip or the like. But all of you have been so encouraging with my blog and art work I've been creating the past few years and I want you all to be a part of this as well. For certain donation amounts, I want to give back to you with an original piece created with you in mind. If you would like to take part, click on the image  below. Then send me an email at bunciknumber7@gmail.com specifying which gift you would like. (Look below image for different gift options)

Donations of $25:

-a handmade 5x7 collage, watercolor painting, or printed photo of your liking (any photo I've taken)

Donations of $50:

-a handmade 8x10 collage, watercolor painting, or printed photo of your liking (any photo I've taken)

Donations of $100 or more:

-a handmade multimedia collage on a 16 x 20 canvas OR an original multimedia photo transfer on wood panel


Thank you all for your support! Prayers for safe travels and growth in the Lord during this time are more appreciated than anything. I will post more about this throughout the summer on my blog but please feel free to email me more about it. I love talking about the adventures the Lord has placed before me and all of your encouragement is such a sweet gift. I love you all.

Roasted

Rob Alvey is a champ. He's one of my good friends here at school and he put together a stellar senior show last night. For his show he completely rebranded our campus coffee shop with bow tie/ coffee mug logo, coffee bag designs, website design, pre-concert listening station, and much more. He put a ton of work into all of this and it definitely paid off. There are a lot of people who will miss this guy when he graduates. But I know the Lord has great plans for him, for he's blessed him with some truly amazing talent. I'm super stoked to see what Rob's going to be doing in the next several years and I'm incredibly thankful to know him.

Double Exposure

This is my final project for my Photography II class. All exposures were created in camera and taken with a Minolta X-700. These were my first 2 rolls of in-camera double exposures and I really loved making them. If you want to see some magnificent double exposures that heavily influenced my own, take a look at inthoughts' flickr page.

Cap'n Crunch Redesign

Today in class we had one hour to redesign a Cap'n Crunch box that would appeal to adults. We needed to at least include the Quaker logo and the net weight. The rest was up to us. Here's mine!

Magic

There is something magical about children's books. When reading them, one doesn't even have to try before instantly transported into a different land, a different time, a different world. It never matters if people have abnormally large heads or if they defy multiple laws of gravity at once. These things are never questioned. Worrying about these things would take away every bit of enjoyment in the story. No, I suppose that is why mostly children love them. Perhaps it is just as children love people without questioning their past that they love books without questioning their logic.

One of my favorite books, introduced to me by a dear friend not two years ago, is The Little Prince. It is written by a man named Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who understood the beauty of children's imaginations and reasoning. This book, more than nearly any other, is one that I can read over and over and be taken to the same beautiful world of this Little Prince every single time. Without fail.

Canopy

This week's photography assignment was...umbrellas! Part of me was super excited for this. I wanted to create an umbrella photo unlike any other. But the more I got thinking and looking, umbrella photos are taken over and over again. Photographers love umbrellas. So with further thought and pinsperation, I came up with this leaf umbrella idea. It took way longer to put together than I ever thought but was so worth it.

And thanks to Cari for braving the wind. I love her quite a large bit.