The Collage Magic Blog
Welcome to the Collage Magic Blog, my musings about collage technique, supplies, genres, inspiration, and meaning-making. I’ll share with you thoughts on philosophy, education, psychology, artmaking, metaphysics, and my own life. Thanks for joining me as I imagine, explore, create, transform,
and manifest Collage Magic.
WINGS Collage Foretells A Dream
“I picked you!, I picked you!,” the ghostly voice cried out from my dream. He stood before me looking haggard and very thin. His hair had turned from silver to bright white. I felt sad, even though, in the dream, I had returned to the house on the river. AT the end of the dream, I held him close as he repeated, “But, I picked you…”
The Power of THE GAZE
The GAZE I’m presenting in this article is about the gaze from inside a piece of artwork and how that GAZE affects the viewer. How do we relate to the eyes of the character(s) in a collage or painting or photograph?
Queen of the Bees
In Memory of HRH Elizabeth II
Queen of the Bees
Meaning-Making and Magical Realism
Research is one of my favorite endeavors. I have folders, binders, notes, envelopes, and boxes filled with information gathered through the years. Much of the research includes photographs, magazine clips, newspaper articles, guides, and pamphlets that, aside from giving me resource material, also provides collage fodder. In the present, with the addition of the internet, information and images aren’t far from reach.
I have followed the Royal Family all my life. Queen Elizabeth was the only Queen I recognized over my entire life. Even though I live in the United…
A Dream. A Collage. A Memory. Collage Magic!
Did you ever have a dream that just stayed with you long after the sleep leaves your eyes? Emotions triggered. Memories surfaced. As a collage artist, emotions and memories charge my imagination with energy. That energy leads my hands to gather images called forth by the dream. My intuition, intrigued by my emotions, guides me to pictures, vintage papers, colors, and symbols. Logical? Not yet. Magical? Absolutely!
Ransom Note Lettering
Do you remember watching detective shows on television? The suspense as the detective unfolds the ransom note created using individual clippings of letters or words glued onto a piece of paper. No recognizable handwriting here! Ransom note lettering is an aesthetic of 1970’s British Punk culture, influenced by the DaDaists who, for many of us, invented collage with a rebellious attitude, embracing everything NOT the norm.