Missy Burton & A Ferris Wheel?
Meet the fabulous Missy Burton! She describes herself as a multifaceted artist. She sings, writes songs, she’s a poet, a photographer, a playwright, an actress, and published author. I’m sure I’m missing something, but you get the idea…..a super, talented mega-force of creativity. She has written plays that toured, she’s released 5 CD’s and had a band. I believe there are some videos floating around the Internet as well. If her creative life force were compared to a jedi, she would be Yoda. No offense Missy. lol. That’s a compliment!
Missy is from Dallas, Texas and born into a family of artists/musicians. From the beginning, she was encouraged to explore creativity. Her grandfather gave her, her first camera and she loved the idea of being able to freeze time. She often has a camera in her hand. Also writing is near & dear to heart and something she will always do.
Here at Orquevaux, Missy is working on many things and letting her inner creative run free. She speaks of her ‘artist self’ in the third-person as it is an entity that controls her. When it’s nurtured, listened to, and fed, you get an enigma like Missy Burton. Missy poetically tells me, “Let France inform me what I’m going to work on!”
She is however, working on her second book, which will be a love story about her grandparents and she wants to be influenced by romantic France. (Have you ever heard of anything more romantic?)
Please check out Missy Burton’s first book; I AM WOMAN, Ode to the Female Essence is a collection of photographs and poetry about womanhood at all stages of life. https://msaniihousbooks.com/products/i-am-woman-ode-to-the-female. It is incredible!
She also has a weekly newsletter talking about her experience here in France, check out her website. You can also follow her on Instagram
Ferris Wheel!
Continuing to work on the 1900 Paris skyline, I chose to add the Grande Roue de Paris. It was a 315 ft. tall ferris wheel that was built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris. This was a very important Exposition, which brought many new engineering & technological innovations to the world. It also brought international attention to the Art Nouveau style, which is the style that I’m modeling my green fairy panel after. I wanted to pay homage to this event and it was a very impressive part of the Paris skyline in 1900-1922.
An interesting fact that I learned about this ferris wheel is that the passenger cars were removed from the wheel and used as homes for French families when the region was devastated by World War I. France just celebrated Armistice Day, so I thought it was an interesting connection to mention.
It is the rough beginnings, but I’m making headway on this important architectural beauty.
