Dear Reader,
If you have clicked on this blog, perhaps it's in response to my promotion for the show at Kingston Gallery. If you go there you"ll find my display of word collages in the back gallery. It's a good location because it doesn't get crowded and if you are so inclined, you can spend time reading.
The card above is an early example of what I started as a daily practice in January. You can click on these and get a larger, better view to make the connections. I am now in the seventh month of making these diptychs. Over two hundred of them! I pick a picture, Google the word and the other words surrounding the image and look for ideas. Voila!... Google does most of the work, but I do the selecting, altering, coloring and pasting. I have been putting them up on Facebook too. You can see more on my timeline if you friend me at http://www.facebook.com/susan.richardshallstein.
It's been a fun and informative effort. The results morph according to the day, the news, my mood and an evolving aesthetic. Not to go too deep, but it is also revealing and helpful in my other work. Free association is a great tool for creativity and self examination. If I were still teaching I would do this with my kids. I know I would get a lot of interesting results.
The work falls into different categories, so I'll just do a quick overview for you. Eventually these collages will be made into a book and you will get a notice about that too!
Serendipity
Visual Rhyming
Artists / personal concerns
Current events
Touch of the Surreal
