Tag: handcut collage
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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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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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Off Channel
My latest experiment in collage art, “Off Channel.” Several images in this collage came from a 1945 issue of Life magazine (pasted on a 12×12″ paint swatch). The magazine, which I was so looking forward to receiving, came in a bundle of three vintage magazines I had ordered from a private seller in Vancouver, BC […]
The Used Life 