Collages 2

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.
Contact: makingwings@gmail.com
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No. 104 11 x 14 inches
No. 105 11 x 14 inches
No. 106 11 x 14 inches
No. 107 11 x 14 inches
No. 108 11 x 14 inches
No. 109 11 x 14 inches
No. 110 SOLD
No. 111 SOLD
No. 112 11 x 14 inches
No. 113 11 x 14 inches
No. 114 11 x 14 inches
No. 115 11 x 14 inches
No. 116 11 x 14 inches
No. 117 11 x 14 inches
No. 118 11 x 14 inches
No. 119 11 x 14 inches
No. 120: "Beneath" 11 x 14 inches
No. 121: "Here! There! Everywhere!" SOLD
No. 122 11 x 14 inches
No. 123: "Fugue" SOLD
No. 124: "Polyphony" 11 x 14 inches
N0. 125: "Fugue" 11 x 14 inches
No. 126: "Subconsciously" 11 x 14 inches
No. 127: "Undertow" SOLD
No. 128 11 x 14 inches
No. 129 11 x 14 inches
No. 130 11 x 14 inches
No. 131 SOLD
No. 132 11 x 14 inches
No. 133: Improvisation 11 x 14 inches
No. 134 11 x 14 inches
No. 135: Improvisation 11 x 14 inches
No. 136 11 x 14 inches
No. 137 11 x 14 inches
No. 138 11 x 14 inches
No. 139 11 x 14 inches
No. 140 SOLD
No. 141 SOLD
No. 142 11 x 14 inches
No. 143 11 x 14 inches
No. 144 11 x 14 inches
No. 145 14 x 17 inches
No. 147 SOLD
No. 148 SOLD
No. 149 SOLD
No. 150: Vivaldi Spring SOLD
No. 151: Vivaldi Summer SOLD
No. 152: Vivaldi Autumn SOLD
No. 153: Vivaldi Winter SOLD