Ostrascopes

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Here’s another from the Crooked Crowns project and one of my favorites. This hoop was in the school yard of the high school in my neighborhood. Played many games as a little kid here getting schooled by big kids who took it off their leather motorcycle jackets to play - crazy to think that there were still kids who looked like the Greasers from the Outsiders in the 80’s. #schoolyard #basketball #streetball #hoops #crookedcrowns https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4b0BavkbJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The scrap pile is immense - can’t help but see potential in every little shard and fleck - #nothingistrash https://www.instagram.com/p/CbIZT4AOdnD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Working title “can you knock me out until after tomorrow’s double root canal?” #dentalmisery ////notebook/spray paint/ink/acrylic/stamp/tape/photocopy//// https://www.instagram.com/p/CYy1vJZrNxY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Working title “Oh S#%t, Not a Another New Year” #tape #watercolor #ink #photocopyart https://www.instagram.com/p/CYMaWkNFqW5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A couple of #WIP in the tiny bookshelf corner #typography #collage #tape #paper #glue #trashstasher https://www.instagram.com/p/CWL70F6vwUR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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An older one that I made for my wife on her birthday a few years back #paper #tape #glue #engraversmt #collage #typography https://www.instagram.com/p/CVs4ki9vs5C/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A couple of new type transfers on aged photos + some old end pages scavenged from the book graveyard at work #typography #tape #paper #abstractphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CVjWaP2M0Rn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Faded packaging + cotton candy bag + tape + deconstructed #helvetica #collageart #typography https://www.instagram.com/p/CVPFlAHsZBd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Test print poetry - #mixedmessages #experimentalphotography #screenprintart https://www.instagram.com/p/CVCMrZIMjqt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This little detail reminds of when we used to custom paint our snowboards in the early 90’s. The best part of the new graphic was when the rattle can paint rubbed off and it looked more like the bottom of a skateboard. #mixedmedia #collageart #tape #paper #glue #acrylic #spraypaint https://www.instagram.com/p/CU5F4PJg5Hw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Detail from a larger piece under construction on canvas——> #tape #acrylic #helvetica #paper #collageart #typography https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNp8W7lLXa/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Too big for the notebook - but maybe that is the point? Love how these little projects grow and develop as if they have a mind of their own. They decide where to go and I merely provide the mechanics. Journal writings processed through a #typography destruction process I have been developing paired with a salvaged lemon bag, and some scrap manila folder cuttings and #acrylicpaint. Is this #collage? Don’t really know but #tape #glue and #paper are the main players. #helvetica #deconstructedtypography (at Litchfield County, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT3HqJpsRbm/?utm_medium=tumblr

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More #typography shards from the notebook https://www.instagram.com/p/CT05tGNMZwO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Letter destruction from today’s notebook - skateboard sandings captured on homemade fly paper and helvetica on tape #collage #typography #tape #glue https://www.instagram.com/p/CTsmMFmvxsB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#sunday workspace/headspace https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcoNdHlcK5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#blockhead & scrap bits https://www.instagram.com/p/CTNP04fFdlk/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Working through some newer type stuff in the notebook - sometimes you feel like your on to something and then it just dead ends. You get close - almost there and then you forget where you were headed. The notebook has been providing a more linear record of missed turns and misread road signs. Never the less, the trip continues. #collage #collageart #junkjournal #junkart #lovetape https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxsBpfMhQ0/?utm_medium=tumblr