While most of my posts are B&W drawings, I like to have a good color piece here every 2nd or 3rd post, - and every once-in-a-while I opt for "Something Completely Different"! I've done Revues, How-To's, Personal History pieces, and more. This one is different again and definitely not drawing.
Once upon a time, back in the dark days before personal computers I was preparing to mount some holiday snap-shots in a photo album. They were "straight from the drug store" prints in ugly yellow envelopes with six inch negative strips included, - remember those? I was trimming the prints to improve composition and was about to toss the small scraps into the trash when I saw that they were interesting in themselves. I fooled around for a few minutes, arranging, RE-arranging, then with a minimum of false starts I butted them together, glued them down and trimmed the edges. I did several variations, stood them up on a small shelf to "live" with them for a while. I decided I liked most then tucked them into a folder. They've been sitting there in the dark of that folder waiting for today's blog entry ever since!
So here, from the far reaches of (for some people) an almost unimaginable pre-tech past, a time devoid of anything digital, are a couple of those experimental photo collages.
The spare piece on left is proof of the old adage, "Waste not, want not." There were a few tiny trim ends left over, which when arranged well give us a plan for a sculptural piece, perhaps equal to any by George Ricky or David Smith.
(Whoa! Talk about Ego!)
OK, I may have to take back that last bit about Ricky and Smith but you have to admit it's an interesting "short-cut" way to generate and explore visual ideas. I can envision a few variations that would produce some wonderful stuff.
Sometimes it's important to step out of your usual "rut" and just play around!
So here, from the far reaches of (for some people) an almost unimaginable pre-tech past, a time devoid of anything digital, are a couple of those experimental photo collages.
The spare piece on left is proof of the old adage, "Waste not, want not." There were a few tiny trim ends left over, which when arranged well give us a plan for a sculptural piece, perhaps equal to any by George Ricky or David Smith.
(Whoa! Talk about Ego!)
OK, I may have to take back that last bit about Ricky and Smith but you have to admit it's an interesting "short-cut" way to generate and explore visual ideas. I can envision a few variations that would produce some wonderful stuff.
Sometimes it's important to step out of your usual "rut" and just play around!
"Abstract art is part of the constant change and vital searching that energizes every true art" Leonard Brooks
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