2026 Collage #3, happy mantids
ALT: magazine picture collage featuring two praying mantises in very dancerly poses, with the torso of a young human in the background. The human was photographed holding a bunch of flowers, but one of the mantises blocked out that view. The flowers ended up as part of Collage #2.
2026 Collage #2, finished and glued down.
ALT: collage of magazine pictures. a grid of 9 boxes, with the shapes of a hand in various positions cut out. in the negative space, faces or pieces of faces, not all of them human. all on a textured green ground, and on the right edge a strip of landscape that is the edge of meadow and forest.
I mostly worked on collages this day. Here is a gallery of where the 2026 batch is at.
2026 collage #1
I finally glued down the first of the collages I started to lay out in March. I think my practical collaging technique is getting better; this one is flat and everything is well glued down.
ALT: collage of magazine pictures, dominated by a sort of gargoyle with a belligerent frog climbing out it’s mouth, and flanked by a bosch club-wielding bird of prey. these images emerge out of a background of brown leaves and blue-green waters.
snap
more play with fiber scraps and ink
ALT: abstract, with glued bits of yarn and thread, and pooled ink. the image could be seen as a purple doggish critter, ears upraised and head turned as if in sudden movement. or you might see something completely different, or nothing at all but swoops of line and color.
winter garden.
As the season moves toward spring, and green buds and shoots are starting to brave the world, we had a snowfall here, nearly an inch. It all melted very fast, but a reminder how early spring so often is a dance between the cold and the warm, intertwined in a way that is quite lovely though sometimes inconvenient.
Since I’ve been obsessed with making little stars and flowers from yarn woven onto pipe-cleaner frames (“darn stars”), my work table it covered with fiber scraps. perhaps inevitable that some would eventually get glued down to a page.
ALT: ink and fiber, abstract. perhaps a glass vase on the right, and leaning over it a branch with no leaves, but maybe watery and fibrous … flowers?
collage party time! here are my ATCs for March
ALT: nine small (2″ x 3 “) cards in a 3 by 3 grid. Each card has a photo of a hand in some position, and the cards are all connected by a red thread that weaves and loops from hand to hand.
what news
ALT: graphite, crayon, and collage. a figure stands, head bowed, with an absurd brimmed hat perched precariously upon it. a cloud of words (newsprint and imaginary writing) rimmed in orange, drifts by its midsection. a bare tree stands in the foreground.
webby
ALT: mixed media, abstract. A mycelial mess in paper collage, acrylic, and crayon. Mostly looks like it’s covered in twisty roots, but maybe some tree branches in the upper right corner.
the truth.
this is probably my last collage for this time around, I have the supplies mostly sorted and ready to store for next year. Thanks to Stephanie Luck Coïc for sending me an inspirational packet of materials, and to all the friends and relations that participate in my annual collage get-together. It never fails to surprise and motivate me.
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