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fell in love with a tin can

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:19:50 +0000

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Cut-paper collage

seen

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:05:00 +0000

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Cut-paper collage

holding fast against dissolution

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:34:10 +0000

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Cut-paper collage

I'm baaack!

Emmylou (sprawled) & Stevie Ray (cuddling)

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:12:29 +0000

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They're chillin' on an old falling-apart soft cube thingie. Sister and brother littermates, bonded for life. Five years old and robustly healthy. =healthy=

stevie ray and emmylou

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:11:33 +0000

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turquoise squiggle joy

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:10:34 +0000

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Cut-paper collage with acrylic paint.

krishna sanskrit pop mania

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:26:54 +0000

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Cut-paper collage with acrylic paint.

Going for the Indian pop aesthetic of "more is more," I built this collage in layers:
—Indian woodblock print background
—straight lines in red paint
—4 images (2 on each side) from Hindu mythology
—central figure of Krishna manifesting his multipart divinity in the Bhagavad Gita
—12 little photos of Indian aluminum clothespins

On top I painted a verse, 3 Sanskrit words, from the Upanishads—pronounced "tah-rah-tee" (purple), "show-kahm" (orange), & "aaht-mah-veet" (turquoise). My rough translation: "When you know yourself deeply, you overcome suffering."

attack of the killer bacteria

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:00:08 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 5.5" x 8.8" (14 x 22 cm) with acrylic paint.

A friend suggested I make a collage referring to the silly old movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." Not all the bacteria here cause disease, but many do--shigella, pertussis, staphylococcus, meningococcus, and others.

undersea with vampire squid

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:58:24 +0000

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

rust never sleeps

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

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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=

frog

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:52:40 +0000

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tentatively upbeat

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:43:01 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 9" x 12"

a little blue, need to go on a trip

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:11:19 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard.

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.

mouthomatic

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:19:28 +0000

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Cut-paper collage postcard. I received a great postcard with a mouth on a field of orange. So I replied with a mouthy postcard of my own.

once more with feeling

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:02:56 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 8" x 11"

The band is The Slits.

cohesion is overrated

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:44:42 +0000

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Cut-paper collage with acrylic paint.8" x 12"

Art in upper righthand corner from a painting by Michael Williams.

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.

machine aesthetic

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:02:02 +0000

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Cut-paper collage 9" x 12"

Background machine has something to do with particle physics, probably a super-collider. Yellow pieces are snipped from a photo of the backstage machinery for a huge stadium. Blue rectangles are from photos of the wreck of the Titanic. Of the four foreground machines, the only one I know anything about is some sort of rocket in the upper right.

The Machine Aesthetic is a subset of Modernism, important in the 1920s and '30s in its influence on design and architecture. Basically it means that machines can be beautiful. This article discusses the Machine Aesthetic at some length.

interrnational postal crisis

nobody@ipernity.com (Fi Webster) — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:40:21 +0000

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Mixed-media postcard. I hope this one gets to its recipient in France!