Tag: collage art
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Imaginary Conversations & Other Art
Imaginary Conversations, paper collage, 2022 Here’s a fresh batch of artwork. All of these collages are minimal. In fact, Photographic is the only one that’s more than two pieces. When I first started my collage practice, I focused on combining lots of pieces, with filling the page with random and/or juxtaposing images. But I’ve since…
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Sensitivity Is a Virtue
Sensitivity Is a Virtue, collage on book cover, 2022 We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin I sometimes think I’ve grown more sensitive as I’ve gotten older. Indeed, I seem to have reached that age at which a great deal of popular culture now offends my sensibilities,…
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Butterfly Effect
Butterfly Effect, paper collage, 2021 This post is formatted to reflect an original journal entry. 5/22/21 I buried a dead butterfly yesterday. I’d picked her up along the side of the road when I was out walking the night before. She could no longer fly, and I knew death was probably imminent. So I scooped…
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Still Life with Apple Tree
Untitled, Woman with Tree, paper collage, 2021 being. portrait of nonbeing still-life with an apple tree tied behind your back thin paper nose back arched like a self-tied knot infatuated with pianos, maybe, or waking up gently to the thrill of chrysanthemums on a Tuesday morning (with dew) it’s the kind of scenery that writes…
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The Invitation
The Invitation, paper collage, 2020 the crow, the shunted earth a detestable paradox, i’d say a man, the shadow of a man could have been anyone. i am troubled by his stillness, his lethargy of mind a woman, face like an amber moon begins to move & wonders if she is a messenger or a…
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Scenes From Inside the Gold Mine
The Cave I had a difficult time naming this post. That’s probably because I wasn’t sure how to tie these collages together (and I couldn’t bring myself to use Postcards From a World That Never Happened twice). Portraits from a…Pictures from a…Scenes from a… Funny. Every time the phrase Scenes from a… popped into my…
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Postcards From a World That Never Happened
I went into last weekend with big ambitions. I had a list of blog posts to work on, lines of poetry that needed honing, expanding, art that needed making. And as it often happens when I’ve got multiple projects to work on, I spent two days bouncing back and forth between them all and completing…
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Gravity on a Tabletop
everything passes through unseen forces landscapes tabletops the limits of freedom & most trees even the voices of oceans dusted off & debated softly over breakfast This collage is my second attempt at gravity on a tabletop. And, while I’m not certain this landscape really depicts the essence of the poem, I really kind of dig…
The Used Life 