It’s been great to get your comments the past three years about the collages on my website. As I always say to my students, collage was THE art form of the 20th century, and that seems to be holding true for the 21st century as well. Many of my students, friends, other writers I know work on collage for a variety of reasons. As a poet, I know collage appeals to my instincts for silence, my magpie love of gathering images, my wish that fragments and broken things might sometimes come together, make something feel almost whole, almost unified.
I’m grateful to my son-in-law, Aaron, for scanning all the new images for all my new collages — I do more and more of my work in collage in my artist notebooks, and none of those images have been photographed-— these new collages in the gallery are created on old pieces of cardboard, manila file folders, and both sides of very old book covers — when i think of the thousands of pages i have ripped from the inside of discarded books, I feel fine, and ambivalent, and then fine, again. I hope you’ll find some of the new collage work I’ve done of interest.
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