You do the talking

Thursday, June 18, 2020

I had this long blog post typed out and then I thought, Can’t I just let my collage do the talking?

Another batch of diary collages. I’ve made 18 so far, going to see how many I can make, until I get bored. Then maybe we’ll make a fake Zillow website and sell prints? I dunno. There’s a book to write, and I’m procrastinating. (Noticing in this batch how each house is really just an excuse to make a garden.)

See more houses here.

Humpty Dumpty

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Here are some collages made with my 5-year-old’s discarded drawings of Humpty Dumpty.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

My copy of The Annotated Alice tells me that the original Humpty could’ve been a cannon which was on top of a tower that collapsed after bombardment, an alcoholic drink, and a children’s game. I like what Humpty Dumpty tells Alice about using big words: “When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.”

Errol Morris once said of journalism, “It’s the Humpty-Dumpty dream of putting the world back together again, to make sense of it.”

(He could’ve been talking about collage.)

More sticky note collages

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Here are some more sticky note collages. I think I like these and my trash collages more than the collages I sweat and fuss over. A good lesson there.

Renovation

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Here is a house for Meg that doesn’t seem to fit into the series, perhaps because it wasn’t a “new build,” but a “renovation,” additions tacked onto an old black and white photo…