Contributions of the group collages sans frontière

rust never sleeps

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:49:34 +0000

Cut-paper collage 6" x 9" (15 x 23 cm).

Title refers to one of my favorite Neil Young albums.

I suffered through a long period of artist's block, since mid-November 2020. But now I've broken through it, and am back. I didn't even know artist's block was a thing, but it is.

Anyway, to those of you still following me, I apologize for my long absence. I don't know how often I'll be making collages, but I have three new ones to upload. More will be coming. =smile=

dancing 'round an iceberg

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:20:58 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard 4 1/2" x 8 1/2"

I don't do this often--make a collage, then just plop a big image on it. But in this case I couldn't resist. Yellow & blue background from a painting by Mark Rothko. Sorry, I don't know who took the photo of the iceberg.

she doesn't want emeralds

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:41:47 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard.

fun with letters

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 13:26:13 +0000

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Cut-paper collage.10" x 13"

bonding with micrographia

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:51:08 +0000

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Cut-paper collage, 11" x 17" (28 x 43 cm)

The dimensions of this collage allow you to appreciate how tiny the writing by Robert Walser is, reproduced in its actual size. It's in German, but is said to be hard for even native Germans to read.

two boys transported

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:00:45 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard. Background from a painting by Ferdinand Hodlar. Purple & red bits from a painting by Yayoi Kusama.

suspended moments

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:50:48 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 8" x 10 1/2"

Another in fossil series: the brown with red (iron oxide) is petrified wood of Pentoxylon, a small tree of the Jurassic period, photographed by Giraud Foster & Norman Barker.

it's all about the strange blue thing

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:47:14 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 6" x 8"

Actually, it's not just about the strange blue thing, from a science fiction illustration by Jim Burns. It's also about the background, from a photograph of dinosaur bone by Giraud Foster & Norman Barker. I seem to be doing a fossil series.

and we learn something

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:31:15 +0000

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Cut-paper collage. Woman with yellow from a painting by Noah Davis. Words from an artwork by L. Pope. Fossil photographed by Giraud Foster & Norman Barker. It's Sphenophyllum, a once-ubiquitous creeping plant, related to horsetails, that went extinct shortly after the Carboniferous period.

This collage was inspired by this time when we go everywhere with masks on, so our facial expressions come only through our eyes. I'm not sure what we're learning, but maybe it includes the fact that we need closeness, we need each other's faces, hands & bodies, more than we knew we did.

everything points to spirals

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:26:10 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 8" x 10"

The rock at top center is chalcopyrite, a sulfide of copper and iron. The gems are rubies. Sorry, I don't know anything about the blue artifact, except that it's ancient.

sinuous energy

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:39:58 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard.

pow!

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:11:14 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard—made for an Australian friend.

Comic pic in lower left is from a painting by Roy Lichtenstein (duh). The words starting with S are from a partial concordance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—compiled by Rebecca Resinski into a lovely handbound chapbook. The small odd-shaped objects are rocks.

we are various, but we flow

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:01:42 +0000

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Cut-paper collage with clear gesso & acrylic paint. 9" x 11 1/2"

skin diseases mitigated

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:41:19 +0000

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Cut-paper collage plus white acrylic paint.9" x 9"

Abstract bits from Wassily Kandinsky paintings.

cholera, before and after

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:49:51 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Recent disease-related pictures from The Sick Rose: or, Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration.

skin disease two

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:09:49 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard.

skin disease one

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:08:07 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 5 1/2" x 8"

stuff happens

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:04:33 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 9" x 12"

The crater was made by a metallic asteroid hitting northern Arizona 50K years ago. It's 1.2 km in diameter. The other stuff includes prions, DNA, sperm, a Martian fossil, heat patterns seen from space, a dry creek bed, and fractals.

sometimes unexpected

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:44:55 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 5 1/2" x 8"

Background from Ben Nicholson's "August 1956 (Val d'Orcin)."

eine kleine nachtmusik

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:12:34 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 7" x 8 1/2"

Background is from a painting by Franz Kline. I associated from "Kline" to "Kleine" and ended up listening to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" ("A Little Night Music") over and over in a loop while I was making this collage. So it's a celebration of both Franz Kline and Mozart.