crayoncrisis is just me
Hello! My name is Elisabeth and this is my archive and playground, my reason for being more creative also when it’s not directly related to my job. I work freelance as a web designer in Norway. I travel as much as I can, I always have a hard time deciding what’s for dinner and I occasionally try to learn some Chinese.
I can be contacted at elisabeth[a]crayoncrisis.com
This domain got registered during a destructive creative crisis in the summer of 2008. I managed to start posting something anyway. A couple of weeks later, I discovered a poem called «Crayon Crisis», that could well have been my inspiration for the name. From Let’s Go: “Somewhere Else” — Poems from the muddled mind of Richard Myers:
Crayon Crisis
I’ve lost my yellow crayon
So I cannot make the sun.
I have almost all my crayons,
But not the yellow one.A picture needs a yellow sun
To brighten up the day,
Without a yellow sun it seems
Colored pictures aren’t okay.Johnny makes his suns with orange
But I don’t think that’s right,
Orange suns appear at twilight
When it is almost night.That gives me an idea.
I’ll make the picture of the night,
I won’t need my yellow crayon,
No sun will be in sigh.I’ll turn my picture over
And make a new one on the back,
I’ll show how things look at night—
Good grief! I don’t have black.