Category: Collage

  • Red Eyes See You

  • Collage in the time of trouble

    When I’m stuck on a project or not knowing what to do, collage always helps. White school glue, scissors, old magazines, my composition notebook and an old movie playing while I work

  • The Demon Sea-Ma and the monkey who can’t quite bring himself to avoid her

    Can the monkey simply meditate his way out of this relationship?

    5″x7″, brush and ink, paper, white gel pen, white glue, cat food cardboard

    5″x7″, brush and ink, paper, white gel pen, white glue, cat food cardboard

  • The “Meanwhile” Knob

    A kid once told me that the perfect time machine had three knobs: Future, Past and Meanwhile. When I’m working on a project that slows and stalls for some reason, I’ve learned to practice collage during the ‘meanwhile’ before the thing I’m working on becomes accessible again.These collages keep my hands and eyes active and ready for when the images in my project return to me.

  • Compbook Collage

    At some point I will get stuck in whatever project I’m working on. This always happens. It’s as if what ever is moving the work forward needs to take a break. I’ve found that if I stop trying to make things work and switch to making collages in my composition notebook, it keeps my hands in motion and keeps me ready for when whatever it is I’m following decides to start up again.

    I don’t think very much about these collages as I’m doing them but much later I’m always surprised to find them looking so fresh when I open an old composition notebook.

    9″ x 7″, crumpled magazine pages, watercolor, white glue on notebook paper. January 2019