Tag: paper collage
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It Wasn’t Poetry Then or Now
Text, paper collage, 2022 it wouldn’t be right to blame you: all thought engineers crisisa lunchbox of anonymity ordinary, in contextlethal, after raina field of wild horsesdissolves the intimate waters of realitya symbol for what might have beenfor what is, is in proportion to self, or the absence of selfa signal in the sky, alive…
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Knower and Known
Knower and Known, paper collage, 2022 My latest experiment in collage art, “Knower and Known.” On the whole, I’m satisfied with this collage, but I am fretting slightly over the quality of the image here. I normally post JPEGs from a high resolution scanner at the shop where I get my prints made, but they’re…
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Self-Portrait in Spring
Self-Portrait in Spring, paper collage, 2022 As I was preparing to post this collage and another one (which I’ve decided to publish at a later date, alongside a poem, methinks), I remembered that I made another Self-Portrait in Spring at this time last year. And how different it looks. I daresay, how far I’ve come…
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Expressionless & Other Art
Expressionless, paper collage, 2022 I haven’t done a bulk art post in quite awhile; so, I thought it was time to share some of what I’ve been working on. Please enjoy. I am also delighted to share that both “The Beauty of Everyday Things” and “House of Cards (Id, Ego, Superego)” have been selected for…
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Lost Without Words
Lost Without Words, paper collage, 2021 middayor,a palm treein absolute movementa butterflyand an infantryracing throughsuburban streetsbecome enormousat the mention of their entwined realitythis is and is not a gesture of sudden extravagance:a seashell and a monument a dense underworld of dandelions thathurls itself through the foot-holes of spaceis an unblemished metaphorfor a life worth living
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The Clouds are Smiling & Other Art
I think I’m finally getting the hang of this collage thing. That is, I think I’m finally starting to make the kind of art that I like, that I’m confident in, and that I actually want to share. So, in the spirit of going easier on myself and giving myself more artistic freedom–or, being my…
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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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Woman with Hummingbird and Clock
Woman with Hummingbird and Clock, paper collage, 2021 to photograph the face of a woman who has no face, but a world buried deep in an exclamation mark as if to say, “this desire is my body” the native wall vanishes a poem germinates from the grimace on her forehead vertebrae of time hummingbird wind
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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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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…
The Used Life 