Like any collage artist, I run the risk of becoming a hoarder. When you make collage, you are always on the hunt for objects to use. Boxes of collage fodder begin to fill up and then, when are you going to get around to using it all? MUNI passes going back to your 1990 arrival in San Francisco, Czech matchbox labels, vintage cigarette cards purchased in New Zealand 25 years back, fortune cookie fortunes from years of lunch specials. It all just keeps accumulating.
My collage work has evolved. Nowadays I tend to make my own material by painting paper, cutting and reassembling. I really have little reason to save these things anymore. In an effort to thin out the hoard I have been creating artist books and then purging, recycling, donating and giving away the rest.
My latest effort is a A Catalog of Collage Objects where each pair of pages is dedicated to 19 different ephemeral objects. Some of the highlights are show here.
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