Collage show opening reception Friday, October 25th

The mail (junk and otherwise!) is the only source of materials for this series of collages, created from whatever was delivered each day over a three month period. I'll have more than 70 small works on display. Hope you can come take a look!Overlooked Artifacts: The Daily Mail SeriesOctober 24th to November 17th, 2013Special Events...

• Opening Reception: Friday, October 25th, 6-9pm
• First Friday: November 1st, 5-9pm
• Last Look: Sunday, November 17th, 1-4pm

Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, ColoradoOpen Thursdays 12-5pm, Fridays 12-9pm, Saturdays 12-5pm & Sundays 1-4pm

Seeing possibilities... collecting collage ingredients

I'm often asked where the bits and pieces of my collages come from... I have a habit of looking at the negative spaces, the spaces BETWEEN and AROUND the featured items in a photograph. It's often there that I see the patterns, color gradations, and subtle imagery that I find most intriguing and useable.

The large photo above shows a recent photograph from the newspaper that had ingredient potential. (Caveat: It's very dangerous not to finish the paper before I get to it, if you want to be assured of reading the complete story!)

At left is a detail of the photo where I've indicated, with green outlines, the areas that I will rip out for future use.

I was recently explaining how I gather materials during a demonstration to a local art guild. Afterwards one fellow said, "You sure see things differently..." Yep, and I took that statement as a huge compliment!