Balance

I've been wanting to use up some of my green collage elements and also wanting to do a collage about balance. Voila! Synergy!

What to do?

I made this soulcollage a couple of months ago when I was going through a hard time and wasn't sure what I wanted to do. The statue of a woman pondering somethings so deeply inspired me to express my own indecision and ambivalence. All the images are taken from magazines (mostly advertisements or National Geographic). Working on this helped me get through a difficult time in my life by focusing painful feelings on a creative process.

Serenity collage

Okay, so I won't proclaim anymore that I'm done with making mono- or dichromatic soulcollages. As much as I adore wild multi-colored art, I seem to have it in me to pump out these limited color collages. This one was inspired by the serene beauty of the model. All models are beautiful (duh), but too often their faces are vacuous, overly seductive, or very full of "attitude." This one seemed to exemplify the quote. Surely not me. Serenity is certainly not one of my defining characteristics, especially amid the storm.

Birthday Card for Deatra

The night before Deatra's birthday party at the Library I was watching an epidosde of Planet Earth and feeling guilty because I hadn't made a card for Deatra. So when Adele wanted to watch a movie I started pulling out some of my soulcollage files to see if I could throw together a card. When the movie turned out to have subtitles, it almost derailed the process. But two hours later I had managed to do most of this card (Ifinished it in the morning) and had a pretty good idea what had happened in the movie. But I think I'll watch it again later. Deatra liked her card.

Give Light

I made this soulcollage for my sister-in-law, Sarah, last fall when she was facing her annual bout with S.A.D. (Seasonal Affect Disorder). I had completely forgotten about it until I stumbled upon a photo of it in my pictures. So since I haven't posted anything else for awhile I thought I'd pretend I'm not going through a dry spell. Actually I have been working on some projects but nothing is ready to be posted.

I'm the one who wants to get away sometimes

This is a soulcollage I've been thinking about for awhile. As soon as I saw her I knew that she had to be in this collage. But her background has undergone many transformations. Her spacesuit was white originally, but I wanted it purple. To get it that way I used pencils, but they gave a mottled look. Finally I used ink with a Qtip; wish I 'd done that to begin with.

I am the one who tries to make sense of things

This is the hardest and most time-consuming soulcollage I've done yet. I futzed and futzed, not quite sure what I wanted to say or do. I had so many images that I'd been saving and it was hard to eliminate ones that I liked but that didn't quite fit with the theme or aesthetics. I think I need to break from these for awhile.