Tag: collage
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This must be the place.
This must be the place, paper collage, 2020 This post is formatted to reflect an original journal entry. 11/10/20 Had a significant insight into my own creative process. It happened on Sunday morning, as I was having coffee and reading one of John Muir’s Wilderness Essays. Experienced a flood of positive emotions as I was […]
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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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Modern Exploration I & II
I got a fresh batch of 1970s-1990s National Geographic magazines in last week and finally made some time to rifle through them. These collages, titled “Modern Exploration I & II,” were assembled on a two-page ad for the 1998 Chevy Tahoe.
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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 […]
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Landscape #1
Yesterday afternoon, I wrote a short poem titled, “Gravity on a Tabletop.” How perfect, I thought, would it be to make a collage that goes with it. And so I attempted to give form to the mood that is gravity on a tabletop. To no avail. From those exercises, however, I did manage to create my […]
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Bursts of Paradise
mind is linearly shape of sandcastles orange peels & endless mirrors time is heavy the fog of everyday life a bit lonely like walking home from the moon & the warmth of familiar fingers little bursts of paradise something human appears & takes flight a clock turns on its face simple indestructible normal to have […]
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Another Chance at Paradise
My latest experiment in collage art, “Another Chance at Paradise”. I am beginning to get the desire to write poetry again, in addition to exploring my thoughts on some important issues related to creativity. Namely, the idea, as reflected in this blog’s tagline, of being a master of none. Of coming to understand oneself, in […]
The Used Life 