creativity – The Used Life

This Isn’t Goodbye & Other Art

This Isn’t Goodbye, paper collage, 2026 Here are some new experiments in collge art. First, I’ve included a song to pair with the title composition, This Isn’t Goodbye. I was listening to 80s rock playlists while I was collaging yesterday and today. The song, “These Dreams,” by Heart came on while I was making This…
Sweet Dreams & Other Art

Sweet Dreams, paper collage, 2026 Here are some new experiments in collage art. I hope you enjoy this collection.
A Journey Under the Rainbow & Other Art

A Journey Under the Rainbow, paper collage, 2026 Here are some new experiments in collage art. I made these while the snow was falling this past weekend. I hope you enjoy them.
Distant Worlds & Other Art

Distant Worlds, paper collage, 2026 Last Sunday afternoon, I spent time experimenting with some collage art. This was the first I’ve attended to my collage practice in a few months, and while I still don’t really feel like collaging as regularly as I once did, I did have some fun. Most of these are pretty…
Lost in Time & Other Art

Lost in Time, paper collage, 2025 Here are some recent experiments in collage art. Also, I mentioned in a previous post that I was thinking of narrowing the focus of The Used Life… I’ve changed my mind. I actually did make some changes to my logo and About page several days ago that transformed this…
Everyday Poem

of not so distant things and peopleas galaxies woven into the cotton, this is the constellation of happenings that make a life, sacred as washing behind the ears andpulling on the jeans, etc.and no less cosmicthis experience of floating through spacewithout knowing how fast we fall
The Harvest We Carry

i could die in a field of wildflowers if they would have mei could sift through November leavesquiet as a birdsearching for answers to cosmic questions while rain pelts the windowsand the cookies in the oven grow tall, like little domesi could write tales of kings and queens, of sorcerers and witches and warlordsconjuring images…
Part of the Silence

when i go into the forest, i am often overcome by an unshakable sense that silence is a placenot a building, but a cosmosand when i plant my muddy boots on the welcome mat, i am there to visit, to knock on the door of silence and, if i am lucky, be invited in for…
Analog Poem

there is no time to wastedawdling with what might have beenthe dishes still need stackingthe coffee to be drunki awoke one October morningand put on a Blue Öyster Cult recordwhile i fed the plants and folded the socks, etc. it was rainingand i scribbled a poem quite spontaneouslyon a piece of scrap paper it said:may…
Stay Cosmic & Other Art

Stay Cosmic, paper collage, 2025 I recently purchased some new collage materials (courtesy of The Brass Grasshopper), including an interior design book from the 1970s, as well as a bunch of 70s Life magazines…and I’ve been having so much fun with them. That said, you’ll find several interiors, or inside-outside collages in this collection, as…