Collages 3

Since 2007, I have created collages, ranging in size from 7.5 inches x 9.5 inches to a little under 14 x 17 inches. These small works are like poems or musical etudes. The reduced size "forced" me to "say" what I wanted to "say" in a succinct manner. That doesn't mean that these pieces don't get complex and layered to the point of being "baroque," but they are meant to be small, something that draws the viewer in, asking him or her to enter a sometimes microcosmic rather than macrocosmic world. Media used include crayons, colored pencils, ink, metallic pens, charcoal, graphite pencils, and watercolor pencils. Papers include Bristol Board, heavy stock drawing paper, watercolor paper, and/or tracing paper. There were two ongoing sources of inspiration for these collages. One was music, the other was my great love of the natural sciences. The forms/structures and myriad colors that I found in my study of geology and astronomy were particularly influential. Each piece should be seen as a kind of spiritual improvisation in which a specific vocabulary of images, shapes, colors, and techniques gets "played with." They are poems, they are prayers, they are improvisations, they are explorations.
NB: Because these are collages often comprised of multiple overlapping layers of paper, a 2D image will not fully capture the "depth" or the subtle "shadowing" that occurs in the actual work of art.
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No. 154 Jonn Serrie 11 x 14 inches
No. 155 Messiaen 14 x 17 inches
No. 156 11 x 14 inches
No. 158 Henze 14 x 17 inches
No. 159 Prokofiev 1 11 x 14 inches
No. 160 Prokofiev 2 SOLD
No. 161 Prokofiev 3 SOLD
No. 162 Prokofiev 4 11 x 14 inches
No. 163 Prokofiev 5 SOLD
No. 164 Nielsen 5:1 11 x 14 inches
No. 165 Nielsen 5:2 11 x 14 inches
No. 166 11 x 14 inches
No. 167 Kites: Oswald West SOLD
No. 168 Elegy: Cy Twombly 11 x 14 inches
No. 169 Theater 11 x 14 inches
No. 170 11 x 14 inches
No. 171A SOLD
No. 171B SOLD
No. 172 Bartok 14 x 17 inches
No. 173 14 x 17 inches
No. 174A SOLD
No. 174B 11 x 14 inches
NO. 175A: Sun 11 x 14 inches
No. 175B: Moon 11 x 14 inches
No. 175C: Mars 11 x 14 inches
No. 175D: Archaeology 11 x 14 inches
No. 176 SOLD
There are no Collages 177 and 178
No. 179B: Boyhood Dreams 11 x 14 inches
There are no Collages 180 through 183
No. 184 11 x 14 inches
No. 186 11 x 14 inches