Some collages with pink backgrounds. Sorry for the crappy scan quality! I'm not sure I care enough about these pieces to re-scan them with greater clarity. I hardly remember making the first one or what was going through my mind, but the second is a scribbly collection of hippie jewels that I cut out of a Pyramid Collection catalogue. Originally I was annoyed with how it turned out, the paper crinkled by the glue, but now I kinda like the silliness.
I wonder about collage, about the extent to which it's a genuinely creative art. The process is about creating a new context for the scraps, recombining them the way you would knit together severed pieces of DNA to create a new dinosaur. (That's a semi-obscure Jurassic Park reference.) But I owe a lot to the original image-creators, don't I? That's one of the reasons why I mainly use magazines and catalogues as source material, because I feel more confident that the photographers have been compensated, and that they released their work with the knowledge that it will be separated from them. I also try to thoroughly disassemble the original work, picking out discrete pieces and doing something new with them. I do try.
Recent media consumption:
1) Watching tons of Law & Order, wondering if it's unhealthy to stoke my cynical side.
2) Listening to an interview with Rosanne Cash, highlighting her latest album, The River & The Thread. It sounds beautiful. Being reminded of how many times I used to play "Seven Year Ache". I still love that song.
3) Reading The Red Lily Crown, which is a bit overwrought and rip-the-bodice-open, but definitely fun. This review on (The) Absolute says it well: "I love fiction set in this time period for all the over-the-top disregard for laws among the elite, and The Red Lily Crown has all the secret romance, murder, family backstabbing, and illegitimate children one could possibly dream up." Basically.
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