The Remembrancer: Had He Ploughed This Pathless Sea
collage (anatomical illustrations, map, ticket, and altered poem) with Neocolors II water-soluble crayons and gesso
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
But had he ploughed this pathless sea
He might have sailed eternally.
The Remembrancer: Default
collage (altered Polaroid, anatomical illustrations, and brass brad) with Neocolors II water-soluble crayons and gesso
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
I really like the way the altered Polaroid turned out. The original photo was of a stack of prints (lithographs, I think) lying on the mat room work bench at the art museum. We were discussing museum self-censorship (the director had decided not to exhibit the print of the nude, because we’d recently had complaints from a community member about nude artwork), so the preparator stuck a piece of black paper over the crotch of the woman and took a Polaroid of it. At the bottom of the photo, he wrote: Museum Censorship.
I kept the picture, intending to deconstruct it and use it in my own work. I separated the emulsion from the backing and washed out the right hand side of the image with a baby wipe, leaving just a bit of red and yellow. I then pasted an image of a woman from an anatomy text behind the photo.
red paper boat 