Paper Exchange Collages

An online group through the Plastic Club, an historic artist club in Philadelphia, hosted a paper exchange. I received a pack of hand decorated papers as well as photographs. The idea was to use the papers to make collages. I used the papers in conjunction with things I made or saved. Here they are below.

The papers I received on the work above were the photograph, the little cut out man, and the map. The tomatoes and lake with trees are things I made. The script writing was from something I salvaged from discarded papers.

Do these tomatoes look familiar??? The print of the tomatoes in the tomato cage is mine and the marbled paper is courtesy of the exchange as is the tiny gold flowers (there are 4, see if you can find them!). Since I made the print on white paper, I had to cut out between all those black lines and around the other shapes. Actually it was pretty relaxing to do that. Writing from same source as writing in last collage.

I was not even planning on making another collage yesterday but this one came together very quickly. Sometimes that happens. The fish is mine, the other printed/painted papers from exchange. And the wonderful poem, one of my favorites, is by my friend Claudia McGill. I did credit here on the collage but you can’t see it on this photo. See below. The poem reads:

In your dreams you cry salt tears

a mermaid listens to your troubles over tea

at her seashell kitchen table.

Claudia McGill, Little vine 4057