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Sitting in the DarkIt leaves her empty,
silent streak of tears
that messed up the ink in blotches...
and every curve, every spot,
is now an emotion of its own, but far..
She wrote, then cried,
all she had to say for the day,
and now she's hollow
dead until tomorrow,
just sitting in the dark.
Silence builds the walls around...
she cried, but that also died
some time ago
and all the rattles,
and all the missed notes of her soul,
are now gone quiet,
exhausted in the shadows.
Light may be, somewhere far,
but it doesn't reaches her tonight,
nor the soft tingle of happiness,
as she's wrapped in stone...
Sitting in the dark, she's alone,
away, far away
from the dan

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Steampunk Salt Bookby ~Maylar

Artisan Crafts / Folding & Papercraft

Ok, I know it's a stupid name...but I feel rather feverish right now and can't think of a better one, so...
Size of this miniature book is 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm. Covers are made black cardboard and thin plastic (resembling much on glass in that size) and filled with salt. Screws are made of PVA glue and gold paint.
Yeah...I just feel like making something like that.

Critique by ~Lovelyruthie Sep 26, 2009, 6:07:54 AM

Maylar's work on a miniature scale is always full of tiny detail, making it essential for the fingertip & ruler shots for you to really appreciate the object's actual scale. Quite the library has been created thusfar, all with a twist or difference from the next - no two books are truly the same.

It has indeed a steampunk feel but I think there could be further adaptations on this theme - filling the perspex front with tiny clock springs, or adapting the front to depict a sand timer, with sand or salt tipping from one end to another. There is something quite magical about this however & who knows what incredible words could be scribed inside?

~*Ruthie*~

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*silverbeam Oct 2, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

you should do a fairy book with this technique and use glitter!

!ccmk Feb 11, 2011

just a question... why salt?? its really cool.. but i'm just asking??

~Maylar Feb 18, 2011 Professional General Artist

Oh, it's an old idea, actually...I had a bunch of stories which were happening in the world with steampunk atmosphere and there were people fighting the undead there (some kind of zombies). After killing them, they had to fill their mouths with salt and sew it, as this was stopping them from getting alive again. Borrowed from some Eastern customs and symbolic, actually...salt is a very powerful thing.
Anyway, in the story, all characters carried salt with them all the time, in the ways most convenient for them. One priest used to carry a sort of holly/magic book (Father Christopher...his story was actually named "The Book and the Salt"). In the book's spine was hidden a vial full of salt, just in case he would need it. I was thinking about that one day and thought about how cool (and horribly not practical, sadly) would be if the book had glass covers filled with salt instead...and this is the product of that

!ccmk Feb 19, 2011

WOOOOOWWW.... I THATS COOLIO!

~Maylar Feb 19, 2011 Professional General Artist

Hehe, glad you like it ^^

~Faesharlyn Jan 8, 2010

I found a website with itty tiny hourglasses, tinythingsarecute.com

different colors and sizes and a lot of other tiny cute things. Love the books, they're so intricate!

~Maylar Jan 8, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thank you so much for suggesting it, you're a

^^
As for hourglass, I'm already in the process of making a tiny one(probably with salt, too), but I'm sure things from this site would come handy in future