REMIX: a show of collages

JOY

collage on board

12 x 12

Three of my collages will be in a show opening tonight at the Albany Barn.   (Private World, Joy, and Drummer.)

The Wonders of the Universe

I know some birds who stared in awe at the wonders of our Universe.  

Six Bouquets

Little explosions to celebrate a special day!

Happy 4th of July!

Families

Two families on their pods.  (Collage with bar-codes, envelope liners, and other scraps.)

Going Somewhere?

They are going.  Who knows where they are going, but they are going.  

Another Tiny Leader

Collage and gouache.  Harmony in greens. 

Follow the Leader

A bird collage.  

The body of the little leader looks like a sideways bookshelf to me.  I like to think of following an educated leader who puts value in books, reading, the Arts, ethics.  

Promenade

An appropriate color theme for the day.
(Collage with postcards, rejected drawings, printer alignment test)

Moon Gazing

Collage in notebook.

Purely for the enjoyment of paper-scraps harmony.  

(Much use here of printer sheets from head alignment test.)

A Day of Marches

 

In support of all the marching birds, today.  

In honor of the right to march in peace.  

In hope of a kinder world.

Birds of All Colors

 

In honor of MLK day:

A Beautiful Speech,

uniting birds of all colors

(8.5x6.25)

Afternoon Stroll

In Honor of National Bird Day (January 5), a collage of birds.  

Two families meeting during their afternoon stroll. 

Follow the Leader

More birds.  It's an obsession, it seems.  At least, a harmless one.  

It is such fun to go through bits of papers and choose the ones that have to go together. 

Tang Museum

Sunday, September 21.  Saratoga Springs.  Gorgeous day.  Visit to the Tang Museum.  

My favorite piece will not look like much in the picture.  It includes motion and sounds so you really have to be there.  But here is the bench you can sit on:  

                     

Here is what you see:  a plastic pool.  On the water many bowls and glasses in tones of white and blue are floating and being propelled by a gentle currant (from a small engine.)  

      

As the bowls gently dance around the pool, they hit each other and create a musical landscape of clinging sounds.  At the same time, coming from the loud speaker is a composition by David Lang (fabulous contemporary composer.)  The whole experience is magical.  

My favorite wall piece:

   

And a detail:   

   

 I enjoyed this too.  Elegant:

  

And this.  Swirly:

  

Going upstairs, a fantastic collection of pieces that recalled the magic of geodes:

 

Anyone remembering some of my drawing-a-day efforts will understand my appreciation of these towers/columns:  

   

And speaking of tall things, this crazy cartoon-like sculpture bade us goodbye:

  

Plus a few Saratoga sightings:

  

Scrap People

 

Random scrap pieces of paper from the collage table given new life.  

A Parade

 

Drawing from a tiny old notebook:  A Parade to wish everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!

A Pile of Rocks

 

Playing with random pieces from the collage table.  

4 Trees # 7

 

Another version of the 4 trees.   Drawing from my collection of found papers.  (I love finding a pattern or color I do not have yet on the inside of no-see-through envelops.)

4 Trees #6

 

The 4 trees again.  This time with a different color harmony.  

Birds, birds, birds

 

 Birds in Line. 

Found a started collage from at least 2 years ago.  Just the pieces of paper on an old drawing.  No idea what I was planning to make of it then.  Started by whiting out background and each piece of paper became a bird!