Collage Art
This is a detail from a 24 inch square, commissioned collage that I delivered last week. This portion of it reminds me of the drive I am taking down several boulevards to visit my Mom each day. There is a sort of tunnel of trees that is so refreshing to the eye. I have been bogged down in details lately it seems and I am anxious to get back to my collage work and to this blog on a more regular basis.
I am finally reworking my website. Some of it will go up today, with more galleries to follow over the next week or so. What a project... It requires a lot of introspection and considerable patience! It has been valuable to reflect on my work, in the process of re-constructing the site, and where it has taken me over the last eight years. (This collage, coincidentally entitled "Introspection," is 10 x 8" and was done in 2000.)
Finally got my collage mounted and off to the National Collage Society Small Works Show. I've titled this one "Impressions." It's just 4 x 6 inches. I did several but could only send one... I've enjoyed working on them.
I saw the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater today. What an amazing performance. So many effortless looking movements and intriguing choreography, amazing artistry and athleticism. I kept thinking how great it would be to photograph the dancers, even though it would be a blur, and use some of those abstract qualities as the basis for a collage composition. I have several pieces that I feel were influenced by my daughter's ballet studies. They are more carefully composed and balanced, as ballet tends to be. The photo shows a piece called "Arabesque" that was done quite some time ago. It would be fun to try something along those lines that incorporates more movement and speed. It is great when one kind of art is able to lend ideas to another kind of medium -- it was a very inspiring afternoon.