Some weekends I have either no specific project in mind or am in the waiting mode regarding another project. This weekend I found myself in the waiting mode for a printing project to dry. It is so humid here that ink can take up to a week to dry, sometimes even longer, depending on how many layers of ink you have on the print. So it was a good weekend to do some collage work because I could easily put it down and go back to it if need be.
The first collage is actually not from this weekend but a similar weekend last month. The materials used were some papers/photos from a materials exchange with members at the Plastic Club. The tree photo and the red paper at the bottom are things I received with the exchange. The house is from a print I made and the pattern is the inside of an envelope. The leaves are cut out from something; I don’t remember what.
The next collage was inspired by some paper my friend Michelle gave to me. She is always buying me paper or sending me paper she finds around her studio. I don’t know why but I am delighted just the same! Anyway, this is beautiful soft, cottony white paper. Quite thick. I drew into it with wet carbon pencils, torn it here and there, and collaged in a few cut up intaglio prints. It called to be sewn into. So I made it and stitched it and then added it into one of my larger sketchbooks.
The last piece is comprised of intaglio prints I made and the photograph is from my old neighborhood. Corner bars often advertised “New York TV”. This was way before cable TV was widely available.
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I see the common theme in them as memories, cities, and houses. Subjects near to your heart.
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Ah very good insight. I didn’t look at them as a group.
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At first I thought they were a group but then I reread your text and realized not. Goes to show you there is a thread running through all your work that is recognizable, I think.
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