More Work-in-Progress from "Open Water" (an altered book)

Work in Progress..."Open Water"

 I've begun working on a new artist's book using an old book of navigation maps of the Kanawha River of West Virginia published by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1950.  A series of water-related collages will be mounted on the river map pages, perhaps interspersed with brief text.

Here are a few of the collages I've been working on:

Prada

In Honor of the Seattle Seahawks, Who Are Going To the Superbowl

I Prefer a Plan, With the Flexibility and Wisdom to Abandon It.

A Few More Pages From "Under Vesuvius," an Altered Book

Debutantes

Interrogator

Some Nazis and a 1954 Bernat knitting pattern book...

Tourist Sights

Rescue at Sea

Sewing Stars

A Death in Soho (Some Souls Were Heavy and Hard To Carry, But Hers Weighed Nothing More than Fluttering Wings and a Whisper).

I keep thinking about "The Book Thief"...it's an incredible book, you should read it.

Sweep Out the Old...Some Miscellaneous Pieces Left Over from 2013...

 Northern Lights

 On the Beach

 Lizard Man 2

 My Alligator Purse Has Pink Houndstooth Lining

 My Sacrifice

 Starman in the City

Where Is Science Going? (Max Planck 1932)

Whiskers

Looking for Water on Mars

Snow Baby

And now I am listening hard

in the grandiose silence of the snow…

--- from “Snow Day” by Billy Collins

2014

Kollage Kit wanted some new year's resolutions, so here's mine.  I'll try really hard to keep this one...

Cocktails at the Gates of Hell

An engraving by Gustave Dore called the "Gates of Hell" makes a lovely cocktail spot for the murderous jaguar from a Diego Rivera mural, a sword-swallowing albino by Diane Arbus, and some genteel but thirsty ladies...

Tea With the Mandrills

New Year, New Sketchbook

Most of my collage work, when finished, gets added to my latest sketchbook.  Here is the cover of the latest one (#11) and the first collage to reside inside.

 Cover Journal No. Eleven

This Is How Her Soul Feels (Self-Portrait No. 4)