Maracole semi-feature show at the art gallery "Hive" Dec 2011

On the night of the opening I sold 2 pieces from 'The amazing match ballerinas circus'.

Botanical Extravaganza Project

 Mousey Candy-Roses are a mix between a rose, a candy stick and a mouse. The following is the report of one of the botanical experiments filed in the anonymous herbarium called:

"Botanical Extravaganza".

This report of a botanical experiment has been found inside an empty laboratory of an unknown flower grower, who reported the curious experiment named "Mousey Candy Rose".

The hybrid creature  named "Mousey Candy rose" is the result of the grafting of rodent genes into a wild rose’s seed, which has been watered with liquid sugar and industrial candy flavor for two weeks, before starting to sprout.

The plant grown from that sprout has been fertilized with cheese flakes for about a month, growing a curious tubular and striped stalk that looks like a candy cane.

The bud popped out only by the second month of experiment, with sincere satisfaction of the flower grower. The wild rose that blossomed soon afterwards displayed a tiny mouse head in her core. The flower grower seemed to be truly enjoying it, as he refers to it as “the cutest thing”.

The situation turned off suspicious, though, as the mouse began to grow tiny and sharpen teeth. The flower grower loved his creature, and he kept feeding her with the most delicious cheddar cheese.

On the third month of experiment the Mousey Candy Rose had grown taller, chubbier and stronger, to the point that a pair of nice feet (wearing fancy shoes!) popped out from underneath its base.

The flower grower was genuinely fascinated, as he reported the unexplainable vanishing of the plant roots. He also reported that, once the Mousey Candy Rose was able to move her first step, he had to chain her to the pot, in order to prevent her for running all over the laboratory (mice tend to be very industrious, especially at night).

The flower grower was compelled to cage his creature, against any ethical belief.

He kept feeding the rose with cheese, and watering her with liquid sugar, up to the revealing moment when the creature grew tiny hands with worrying claws.

One day the flower grower discovered in horror that she used her claws to dig a hole in the bottom cage and set herself free.

It must have been at that point that the flower grower expressed his first perplexity about the whole experiment. He also confessed to be scared by the unexpected results he had obtained. It was now evident that the rodent genes had taken over the plant’s, so that the hybrid creature generated was in fact a rodent, more than anything else.

Going against his ethic, the flower grower stopped feeding his creature, expecting her to fade and eventually die.  But against any expectation the creature started eating herself, biting into the candy stick that composed her body. The flower grower despaired, in the astonishing self revelation that he had given birth to a monster.

The last page of the experiment reportage is almost empty, with the word "forgive" only partially spelled. It is clear that the flower grower had no time to finish his writing, as the experiment was interrupted by something unexpected.

Curiously, blood stains the page.

(By anonymous.)

This is a beautiful sample of Mousey Candy Rose just opened.  Look at how pretty are her blue eyes, and what a shiny fur! This is just the best Mousey Rose I've ever grown. I water her with liquid sugar twice a day and I feed her some cheese fertilizer once a week.

As you plant a mousey-candyrose seed into mild dirt, all you need to do is to water it with liquid sugar and fertilize with cheese flakes. After a week or two the candy stick-stalk pops out of the soil.

It will takes two weeks to grow tall, sugary and bright.The bud usually gets ready to blossom within 15 days.

As the boots pop out of the seed, it is ready to sprout. The mouse genes are taking over the plant.

As a Mousey Candy-Rose has grown enough, she gets "footed". With her nice pair of boots she can jump and run all over the place and you won't be in charge of feeding her no more.
It's at this point that the "mousy" part of those creatures takes over, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Since a Mousey candy Rose is partially a mouse, you have to expect her to sleep during the day and to turn into a little evil at night, when she wakes up and runs to the shelves in search for cheese.

What a mess in the kitchen! But it won't be for much longer: Unfortunately Mousey Candy-Roses wither very soon. They last as long as a regular rose...

See more soon.

A "Kitchen Mouse Ghost" story...

Kitchen Mouse Ghosts are used to haunt my house every year around Halloween.

Those ghosts disguise themselves as kitchen mice in order to haunt store cupboards in search of sweets.

But they tend to be quite clumsy. Sometimes you can tell from the very first moment that they are wearing a camuflage: It's a matter of fact that Kitchen Mouse Ghosts aren't very good in stitching on mice costumes.

You can tell they have a fake tail. And there are times when the costume start falling apart.

Some other times they even forget to take off their socks!

They are not particularly scary, I'd say. Actually... Kitchen Mouse Ghosts are the ones that geta scared as they see a human being.

Poor thing! All this ghost wants is just to eat his sweets in peace.

How are shells made?

Have you ever wondered where shells come from?

"Villis" are the  explanation. Those furry and tender creatures live underneath the ocean, and grow shells from their heads. As a shell is ready the Villis drops it off his head, down on the sand.

No worries: Another shell will grow from the Villis' head soon.

                                                          Good night... ZZZZ  ZZZZ...

"Villi" is an intellectual property of Maracole.

"PooPoo Girl & Mr Fly"

The doll that nobody had the courage to make, it's finally here!  "PooPooGirl" by Maracole is the first and unique scented poo poo doll. This first release is Strawberry scented, as PooPooGirl has just eaten strawberries.

PooPoo Girl loves strawberries. As she eats strawberry, strawberry spots pop up on her cheeks and she becomes strawberry scented. Mmmhhh, delicious!

Mr Fly is always with PooPoo Girl. Soon available the comic strips of their fantastic adventures.

PooPooGirl by Maracole 2011. All rights reserved.

"When it rains diamonds"

This mixed media sculpture is an assemblage of parts made in various materials, like sculpey, faux fur, zipping, wire, fake gems, glass, fake flower and wood.

A glass base and a fury look make this art work more appealing. I love mixing fur, fabric and gems with harder materials like wood and glass.

I imagine a world where it rains only gems, and the inhabitants crave for the rain.

In this case the melancholic flower-elf has popped up from his glass-cone-house in order to catch some diamonds with his special umbrella.... With plenty of holes:)

It seems that he caught at least one gem for sure;)

This flower elf has a melanchonic expression, some sort of a sad smile that recalls to memory the enigmatic smile of Monnalisa. It's because when it rains the world gets soaked with melancholy.

Even when it rains diamonds.

The Art Show Master Blasters of Sculpture at the Hive gallery in Los Angeles downtown, Nov 2011.

"Adopt a little Ogre"

Ogres have a heart of gold.  Ogers' kids in particular are adorable. That's why I decided to create an Adoption Service for little Ogres orphans .

Sally is the first on my list. She's 9 years old and is truly in love with animals. She recovers dead animals from the forest and makes them pretty. She gives them a new house. And she loves them as if they were still alive.

Sally loves also wrapping gifts. So she wrap gift paper around her little friends and she make beautiful presents out of them. This is Bob the moth.

Diamond Bob was used to being a regular moth. As Sally found his corpse, she made him prettier by adding decorations and a shiny gem on his left wing.

Sally loves flies, for they use to fly around her little friends. The real flies... As well as the fancy flies:)

ADOPT A LITTLE OGRE is now a mixed media artwork that you can buy on Maracole Etsy shop online. Sally has been packaged like a Barbie, and exposed inside her tiny environment with accessories.

The doll comes with bendeable arms and empty hands.

Inside the shoebox I put Sally's treasures: Tiny, pretty corpse-animals which Sally has wrapped into gift paper. Your choice of switching the gift in her hands.

As sample: Timmy the opossum...

Irma the wolf...

 

Richard the chiken.

 

Sally wrote also a letter to her new family. You'll find it inside her package box.

 ADOPT SALLY, PLEASE! You will see how warm  an Ogre's heart can be.

"Adopt a little Ogre" has been on show at the art gallery "The Hive", Los Angeles downtown, from Sept the 3rd to the 28th 2011.

ADOPT A LITTLE OGRE by Maracole 2011. All rights reserved.