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TRISTAN MICHAEL My left-handed, musical and very clever first-born Former partner of Elena, father of Nicolas and Stella |
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Key to fabrics and findings:
Constructions Details:
This is a “people” panel. The restless Thing 1 in the center is surrounded by Star Wars (points folded back) and gears, then circles of Pine Burr.
- Applause: Mix tapes for his boombox
- Birches: Many outdoor adventures at Butterfield Farm
- Boston Red Sox: Played sports as a lad
- Burger: Grillmaster of delicious foods
- C-clamp, Tape Measure: Projects, projects
- Camera: Nicolas is a shutterbug
- Cats: Named his first kitten Ed after our garbage collector who had an impressive truck
- Cherries: Stella's cherry-butt bathing suit at Zoom Flume water park
- Chilies: He and Elena worked in a Mexican restaurant
- Cityscape, Coney Island, New York: Home Sweet Home
- Compass, Enjoy the View, Maps: A Roads Scholar and remarkable navigator
- Computer, Plug: A good navigator of electronic devices and their useful apps
- Desert Camo, Stars and Stripes: Served in the US Army in the Gulf War
- Eiffel Tower: On a French Club trip to Paris during the meltdown at Chernobyl
- Fish: Momo was Stella’s pet
- Flip Flops: Life’s better in minimal footwear
- Fried Egg, Pizza: Takeout’s easy in the Big Apple
- Gears: Fascinated by machines from a very early age
- Graph Paper: For laying out ideas and plans
- Green Beads: Started out life with blue eyes that somehow turned to hazel
- Hearts: What’s not to love?
- Lego: Lego and Super Mario--match made in Heaven
- Monkey, Thing 1 and Thing 2: He and his brother are apes
- Moon Landing: Watched it in utero
- Musical Staff: Blessed with an amazing ear, sense of rhythm, and memory--player of baritone horn, trombone, and trumpet
- New Hampshire: Born and raised there
- Raccoon: Gimme coffee or else
- Riverside Church: Nicolas and Stella performed there with The Possibility Project
- Scrabble Tiles: Tristan, Elena, Nicolas, Stella
- Sled: Steep hills for sledding at Butterfield Farm; once he landed head-first in the icy brook
- Star Wars: Ask him to talk like Greedo
- Sugar Skull: Elena had religious icons
- Tartan: McClure and McLean, visited cousins in Scotland around age 9
- Yellow Ribbon: I wore this for many months in 1991
Constructions Details:
This is a “people” panel. The restless Thing 1 in the center is surrounded by Star Wars (points folded back) and gears, then circles of Pine Burr.
Copyright Jane McLean, 2023