the sun hung like a stone
Mary Oliver - from: Indonesia (House of Light, 1990)
collage on a mosaic of gelliprints with images and gold thread
square collage in shades of grey-green, the background a mosaic of squares with various motifs, with a rectangular area diagonally across it, its sides also grey-green, the centre green, dark red and dark blue, top right a semicircular image of a sun made of gold, below that an Aztec figurine holding the rays of gold thread that spring from an Egyptian sun with hands, on the diagonal dark blue plane a mountain climber with a yellow rucksack, who is attached with gold thread to the half-destroyed figurine below, top left a sun of clay with loose rays of glittering gold thread
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…