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This new book inspired me to make some bedroom art today.
It is full of Matisse's pictures of his scissor masterpieces--tres magnifique!
The creation that I made was the silhouette of a ballerina
cut out of lovely soft pink paper from Hollander's in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
The paper is laced with gold threads and I highlighted the silhouette
with poinsettia-shaped red tissue paper.

I liked one Matisse's quotes from page 107 of the book:
"Any artist who manages to produce necessarily attains the religious.
Thus I am conscious of assembling the materials, or working to try to
put them in some kind of order, but when the picture is done,
I have the feeling that I am not the one who painted it;  God is."

Here is the poem that accompanies the art:

The Ballerina

She dipped her hand in a chest of tutus
it turned pink.
that pleased her.
she fell full length into the chest of tutus.
she turned pink.
pink in voice and singing.
the ballerina.