Syncopation, noun. Music: a shifting of the normal accents, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.

I usually work with fabric, but I'm working on something a little different this week.

Kind of different, yet kind of the same when you look at it.

These are small paper collages that I made several years ago. I had an idea for assembling them and it has been on my "list of things to do" ever since. But my quilts took over and the collage packets languished on the shelf and on that "to do" list.

Seriously, I have a white board in my studio and the words "collage packets" have been on it for 3 years!

A show listing appeared in my inbox last week. The criteria . . . . . . . "Women only" - check . . . . . . . "Music theme" - check . . . . . . .  "drop off at the Arts Council next weekend" - ummmm, not so ready to check that one off yet.

I rarely seem to have any artwork that fits in at my local Arts Council. It is often the fabric thing, but more often the monthly 'themes' that I don't fit into.

This was my sign though, to get my paper collages assembled. I'm stitching them together with wire, which was the original idea/plan for them.

Maybe you know that I've been loving wire for awhile now and really want to use it more and more in my art. I could also happily change my medium to paper.

So I think I'm 'syncopating' - shifting my normal accent and stressing the normally unaccented.

Yet look how very quilt-like this is - squares/patches stitched together to form a larger piece. I guess I'll never get completely away from my quilt roots!

This piece is titled "Syncopation". And now I must go finish 'stitching' it together so I can check off the last thing on the list - deliver to Arts Council next weekend.

Until next time -

MCH