A friend of mine started a a mix tape society, where everyone submits a couple songs each week or so, and we make a CD for everyone. He asked me to make some collages for the CD inserts, so that’s how these started. They’re nice little works, and each is about 6 x 6 inches. The size of a CD insert is about 4 and 3/4 inches square, so the originals are a bit larger, and so scan and compress nicely. Each takes only fifteen minutes or so, so they’re fun experiments. I find I have more ideas for collages than I have the patience to turn into paintings, so it’s good I’m doing these alongside the bigger work.
The photographs are my own, except for the stripe pattern, which is from a photograph of Patti Smith, and the image of the woman holding the phone is from the film “2046.”
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Dear Ming:
Real beauties. The first, especially, has a soft poetry uncharacteristic of the harder colors of the Rounds 1 and 2 collages. I like the play with the Etch-a-Sketch, too. It’s epecially startling in view of its original. Nice work.
Poetry Pedant