collage on paper
4 5/8 x 6 inches
Category: Collage
I Made a Book
The Mirage
three needle, single sheet Coptic bound book using recycled materials
7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches
The boards used to belong to a college yearbook. The pages were cut down from larger pieces I did years ago and meant to bind but never got around to it. They were single folded sheets, then, which would have been easy to do as a Coptic binding with single-sheet sections. But I’ve been wanting to try out one of Keith Smith’s single sheet Coptic bindings, so I decided to cannibalize some old work to practice on.
Why single-sheet Coptic? Because I’ve got all kinds of single sheets of things that I want to turn into books, but I don’t want to stab-bind them. I want the pages to lay completely flat.
It’s not perfect. Because I was working with single, unfolded sheets, it was a little too easy to get them flipped upside down. Which I did. Which meant that the center section of sewing is a little skewed because the center holes in the flipped sheets did not line up properly. Also, though this is actually less annoying, those pages are now upside down. I’ll have to go in and rework them so that they make sense. Story of my life. Boys and girls: Never attempt bookbinding while drinking bourbon. It’s a bad combination for a lot of reasons. Like blood.
When Art Attacks
Unfinished
10 x 8 inches
mixed media (graphite, gesso, and collage) on canvas
The bottom layer is a page of art history notes from college. I believe on Rodin, hence the repeated refrain of “Unfinished.” The tree is graphite, and the map is from an old world atlas.
Wine and Glue
There was wine. And then there were two arts.
The top one has a line taken from an Alfred Tennyson poem, The Princess. It is tl;dr, yo. The poem is about higher education for women. The image is photos of an academic honors society, from a 1957 high school yearbook.
Iphigenia Series
Now I am confounded in all things.
What things fit so perfectly inside this moment?
These stately ships over the see
Will live in memory.
Listen to me, listen.
You have dared a fearful thing.
With what gladness
Terrible enough
to break my heart?
Wishes
They stand close
to the brink of grief.
Well, what is that star
That moves across the sky?
These, our ships —
With their
Mother
wings
Is not this sorrow
My grave
and my monument?
My spirit.
facing the light
And alive.
All of these are about 4 1/2 x 6 inches.
Night Boat Series
All of these are approximately 4 1/2 x 6 inches, mixed media on paper, and ALL of them sold almost immediately. Which is nice! But I have worn the prints off the tips of my fingers, blending pastels.
Pear 2
Pear 2
oil pastel, acrylic, and collage on canvas
6 x 6 inches
Pear
Pear
oil pastel, acrylic, and collage on canvas
6 x 6 inches
We rise up
We rise up tangled
with the night.
Down shadowy lanes,
across Strange distances
We have come
ready for the fight.
Art-a-thon
I did a 24 hour art-a-thon last weekend. I didn’t quite make the full 24 hours, because I had to get some sleep, but I got a lot done. Mostly glue books, because that’s a low pressure way to get back into the groove.
red paper boat 