Serial Collage

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I have been rather frustrated with Swap-bot lately. Especially the swaps I have conceived and hosted. Half the people don't read the directions, the other half that does gets upset because their partner didn't read the directions and then participants complain to me, and no one answers the nagging emails I send and on and on. So, to remedy the situation, I am hosting another slightly conceptual swap, with even more forbidding scarymean art verbiage.

Fantasy Art Projects

I still want to go back to art school, but since I haven't yet, the next best thing seems to be to torture other swap-botters with my "ideas." I'd love to do series and series-within-a-series of collages. This is the first of, what I hope, becomes a series of a series of swaps. (I am wondering is there a better word for that? metaseries, perhaps? but that sounds like the less euphemistic cousin of a suppository) Half the fun is writing the directions. My goal is to discourage the mindless crafters (of course, none of my readers fall into that category) while whetting the appetite of the thoughtful, interesting artists.

My Idea

Originally, I wanted to take a compositional element and use it in each piece. It turned out I found cool photos of cables. I also found some other texturally interesting scraps, too. The geometric painting, the scrap that looks like TV static and a few others. I ended up working on all of them at once. The process was quite organic-- I found compositional elements (the horizon line, the slanting lines) and tried to reproduce them and change them at the same time (musicians call this a variation on a theme). I ended up using and reusing more elements than I originally planned, but for now, I am happy with the way it turned out.

more correspondance

sent to El Caballero in Bear Town

It is nearly Summer, and all of a sudden I have some free time! Does anyone else want to exchange postcards with me? You don't have to be artsy. You can just get any ol' postcard and glue something on it. Insta-collage! I recommend using PVA (a kind of book-maker's glue that is waterproof and not smelly, relatively cheap) or acrylic medium. Or stickers! But even elmer's white glue will work, though I don't recommend glue sticks, since they won't hold hard for the postal processing. My email is on my profile and you can write me with your address. I just need a good excuse!

(I got some French postcards and they spelled it "correspondance" It looks rather musical)

Correspondence

sent to the Son of the Steppes

A long time ago I signed up with the Post Due postcard collective, and sporadically ever since, I have sent postcards to the folks. Sometimes I even get some back. I just discovered that one particular gent, Ryan, has been posting the ones he sends me on his special blog. I am lucky! He sent a bunch to me. There is the most recent one.


to Dax in Chicago

I have been laboring at my drafting table all afternoon (just taking breaks to eat bread and chocolate) catching up with nearly six months of backlogged postcards.



to Ryan in Austin TX



to Carolee of Post Pod



to the KB in the Hamlet



sent to Amanda in Brooklyn

This one was particularly fun to do. The original card was a art-reference card of a northern renaissance triptych. One of the panels was illustrating the Wedding at Cana, and this woman reading was sitting at the end of the table, rather prominently. I wasn't sure if she was the patron of the piece, or a prefiguration of Whistler's Mother. Either way, I like her.

Here's the card Amanda sent me.