Sweep Out the Old

Arrived back home a few days ago and cleaned out our refrigerator to rid it of grossly expired foodstuffs (had a pretty amazing collection of years-old jars of deadly, expired victuals...).  It was so satisfying, I'm doing the same with a bunch of collage images, all done sometime in 2014, all somewhat expired although not necessarily deadly...

 Climbing Cheops With Artichokes

(part of my Stoddard Series)

 Mrs. Hans Hoffman Drives Her New Piggy Cart

(part of my Stoddard Series)

 Georgia O'Keefe Under Sail

 Mechanics

 Hot Lake Sanatorium

 Mom, Dad and Little Doreen

 Not What You Thought It Would Be

 Pest Control

 Ronan

Sunday In The Park With George

I Am So Tired of Trying To Save You

Taking a Little Winter Break...See You in 2015

Finally Finished...

"Our Family" is a one-of-a-kind artist book that has loomed over me for a year or two, and I'm happy it is finally done,  The time-consuming part of this project was the repair/restoration/alteration of an old, disintegrating Victorian photo album.  The original celluloid covers remain intact, but the bindings, endpapers and photo display pages had to be repaired, replaced and altered.  AND, then when I was near completion about a year ago, I managed to drop it and tear some of the fragile cloth interior bindings.  So, I backtracked, re-bound, reinforced, and pretty much re-whatevered the rest of it. I stripped the photo display pages to the original cardboard and covered them with inkjet images of various old decorative photo album pages and vintage illustration.  Endpapers and the backs of the photo pages are covered with Nepalese Lokta paper in various lovely designs.  Mounted on the display pages are twelve collaged antique cabinet cards depicting some of my stranger relatives, including Fannie with her orange squid tentacles and two unusual librarians (see below).  It has turned out well and I hope to be able to avoid dropping it in future...

The Naked Truth

 The Mathematics of Creation

According to Greek mythology humans were originally created with 4 arms 4 legs and a head with 2 faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. (Created for Kollage Kit weekly theme:  "mathematics, numbers"

Ties That Bind

(scanned images from vintage anatomical fold-outs, red silk embroidery thread)

Knife Box

The Great Outdoors

 Paternity Was Disputed

The Heist (No Problem, We'll Just Tell Her We Found Them In The River)

Spawned by Dust

Darkness at the Edge of Town

Vera

Three Ladies

 I, Robot

 Puzzle

Time To Put Herself Back Together (Self-Portrait at 25)

We Are Judged By The Faces of Guy Pene Du Bois