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knitworks

Oz socks

circa 1978

Trying

I love this video so much. This cat, trying so hard to sip like a people. Desperate to sip like a people. Objectively incapable of sipping like a people.

littlealienproducts

polkadotmotmot

Sanghee Ahn - Nimbus 286, 2019

her-vintage-world

neckkiss

MILK AND HONEY pt.3

radstudies

Paul Wonner (American, 1920-2008)

Still Life with Indian Miniature, 1980

tofuart

A Catalog of Collage Objects

Like any collage artist, I run the risk of becoming a hoarder. When you make collage, you are always on the hunt for objects to use. Boxes of collage fodder begin to fill up and then, when are you going to get around to using it all? MUNI passes going back to your 1990 arrival in San Francisco, Czech matchbox labels, vintage cigarette cards purchased in New Zealand 25 years back, fortune cookie fortunes from years of lunch specials. It all just keeps accumulating.

My collage work has evolved. Nowadays I tend to make my own material by painting paper, cutting and reassembling. I really have little reason to save these things anymore. In an effort to thin out the hoard I have been creating artist books and then purging, recycling, donating and giving away the rest.

My latest effort is A Catalog of Collage Objects where each pair of pages is dedicated to 19 different ephemeral objects. Some of the highlights are show here.

stupidpetface

mereljournals

my journals and typewriter

abigailkart

march 3, 2019

society6.com/abiwhales

tofuart

Scrappy Scrapbook

For about two years I have been working on the same scrapbook. I’ve reached the point where the book is full. In other words, it is becoming difficult to close the book.

It all started at one of San Francisco’s library book sales where they sell donated and discarded books for $1. I already owned a guide to London’s National Gallery from a visit I had made. I really had no practical use for a much older version, circa 1960. Or did I?

My original thought was to cut the images out of the old book for collages. Instead I started filling the book up. It began with left over paint on my palette and scraps from other projects. Collage bits, old postage stamps, maps, chocolate wrappers and other ephemera kept getting added. The folks at the San Francisco Correspondence Coop contributed many of the artists stamps and some of the rubber stamps. And finally, some of the random scraps I have received in the mail. Some of the results are shown here.