Tag: Collage

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Be Charming 2021

A girl is raised to be charming. Magazines tell her how to look, feel, and behave, using clipped phrases that include: a ghastly weight; gloomy outlook; women; what causes sick nerves?; that body of yours; don’t be skinny; crash diet; which is your personalty? (sic); gloomy and pessimistic; be successful; bosom beauty; overactive emotions; nervous and mental breakdown; it is suicidal; make life worth living. She watches women trying to be beautiful, exhorting each other to be successful (attractive), experiencing frustration, and eventually losing their physical and emotional balance. After she learns that To Forget Yourself Is Charming, the girl is erased.
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Paintings Postcards

Six pieces of mail art

a drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration of a girl in a red dress peering anxiously to her right with part of a US flag behind her
Front Row Pass

Two paintings turned into six postcards, each about 4 x 6 inches. Front Row Pass: A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration of a girl in a red dress peering anxiously to her right with part of a US flag behind her

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Collages

Les convoitises

illustration/digital collage: woman in profile holding a viewing instrument; colors are unnaturally bright and a second woman floats in the background
2016, digital illustration
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Books

The World As India

facing pages in first half use collage with knocked out letters spelling “The World As India” while facing pages in second half use filled-in letter negatives spelling “aidnI sA dlroW ehT”
The World As India book design: first half, center spread, and second half (index)

A map the size of the territory.