collage of gelliprints and images
square collage in dark pinkish red and golden brown tones, with on a background of decorative motifs a sloppily torn square printed with dark red faint letters, with in the upper right corner a large mottled dark red circle, in the lower left corner a large crescent moon of the same gelliprint with along the lower tip a two-headed green snake monster of mosaic, behind it a woman with a child on her arm who appears to be looking at a medieval man with a head on a stick, in the upper left corner a necklace of gold-rimmed beads, along the upper edge three African masks, along the right edge a gold mask and in the lower right corner a bunch of red grapes
Whether you call it mixed media or collage: what I make is what the work is asking. Sometimes it asks for a lot of pictures, or for colorful motives, for a watercolor background or a gelli print, sometimes I use stencils or words. Sometimes a color is.. Read more…