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My Year on the Web in pdf Form

Oceania (under the ocean) -The project paired sculptures from Oceania with underwater photos. Matching Oceania with the ocean seems an obvious choice and the ocean as the beginning of all life being the repository of what the West considered as primitive art may also seem logical. The objective of my collages is to show the viewer something visually pleasing that they have never seen before which can be enjoyed as a final art work or may be parsed into its component parts and each of those enjoyed as well. A small project that I hope you like.

Women and the American Quilt -The project combines historical American quilts with famous portraits of women. The verb quilt means to join together and I took this idea one step further by doing this. As in many of my collage projects I take two beautiful objects and combine them into a way that the viewer ends up with an image they have never seen, but they can enjoy it or parse it into its components and enjoy both of them. I enjoy playing with the arbitrary distinctions between art and craft and in the case of quilts I am amused by the fact that I am recycling books into these art project in much the same way that the quilters often also used scraps to create their works.

I hope you enjoy the results.

Where I make my daily blog into a pdf book

Taming Nature’s Chaos -This book project utilized the images depicting the chaos of nature (photographs by Eliot Porter) and combined its beauty with the beauty of models and fashion

A project where one Annunciation meets a multitude of others. This book project utilized a book devoted to this single work of the Annunciation by Guido Reni that can be found the Church of Santa Maria della Carità in Ascoli Piceno. I felt that the chutzpah of creating a whole book dedicated to only one image as a tourist souvenir needed to be addressed and as the history of art contains a proliferation of other scenes of the Annunciation I decided to supplement the single image with other Annunciations from throughout history.

Where the Inuit visit the Gaspe

Where angels visit the earth inhabited by old time starlets

One Annunciation meets a multitude of others

Using Canada from space images as a background, I added the images that seemed to the the world’s government’s solution to the climate crisis

Where people from paintings and advertisements meet

A collage project using one issue of a men's magazine with a book of Gauguin images.

I found the book Das Kleine Museum at a thrift shop and had the idea to insert into the book my version of the same subject that I had a photo of somewhere in my catalog. Rather than create a physical copy I decided to merely add my image to the left side of each two page spread. My intention is to add seven pages to the book each Friday They will not be matched exactly in the order as the book. Some items will be much harder to find a match. I have also made the rule that no new images that I take are allowed to be used in the project.

My blog transformed to pdf for the year 2021

Chachka photo album filled with classic nudes