Category: Collage

Altered Poems, Art, Artist Books, Collage, Ladybusiness

The Terrible Hours: We Sat and Waited for the Shocking to Begin

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: We Sat and Waited for the Shocking to Begin
The Terrible Hours: We Sat and Waited for the Shocking to Begin
collage (anatomical illustration, child’s dress pattern, altered poem, and magazine clippings)
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

And so we sat and waited for the shocking to begin;
But there wasn’t room for blushes, or a place to put them in —
Till at length it dawned upon us we had all been sold.

Altered Books, Art, Collage

The Terrible Hours: The Rape of Io

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: The Rape of Io
The Terrible Hours: The Rape of Io
collage (anatomical illustration, child’s dress pattern, and magazine clippings)
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

I posted this to several Flickr collage and works on paper groups without thinking that it contains nudity. Oops! Hopefully, I won’t get my hands smacked for it, but I went back and looked at the group descriptions, and I didn’t see any “no nudes” requirements.

Altered Photos, Art, Collage, Letters to Esther

The Terrible Hours: Uncertain Orbits

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: Uncertain Orbits
The Terrible Hours: Uncertain Orbits
collage (child’s dress pattern, altered Polaroid, magazine and dictionary illustrations, and anatomical illustration)
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

I found the diagram of the solar system in an old dictionary. Ironically, it was published before Pluto was made the ninth planet.

I’ve been struggling with this one off and on all day. Aside from having a headache, I was preoccupied with having been contacted by two of Esther’s nieces. I’m still mentally processing information, and I won’t know how things are going to proceed until they’ve had a chance to talk to the rest of the family. Obviously, I’ll return the letters to them, but I’m hoping that they will let me digitize and transcribe the remaining ones first. And, of course, I’d like to keep the letters online, where they will be accessible to everyone.

The internet, it doth amaze!