Part 4: If you save it long enough you might use it in a collage

Scraps old and new have ended up in the Layout Scrapbook.  As an artist, people give me things I might use, and a collection of metro tickets from around the world finally gets used.  

If you give me a box of Niederegger Marzipan, I’ll be sure to recycle the foil wrappers.  The remains of a copy of Avant Garde, a short-lived magazine from the 1960s, are in the book after lingering in the family’s attic for decades).  

Go through boxes and find photos of young cousins eating ice cream (he now has five of his own children).  The polka twins are really one young lad who is now becoming a star down in Los Angeles and that punk with the goats is still rocking up in Portland.  You will never forget a trip to Mexico when you think about dairy products and Supradol (the best name ever for a painkiller).  

On the back cover of the book we get an illustration of Allen Hurlburt himself.  And finally, honk if you know Ken Budka.

MUNI Mandala

MUNI Mandala, mixed media on canvas, 8”x8”, 2013

I am not the only artist hoarding and collecting old MUNI Fast Passes in San Francisco.  The printed version no longer exists and they have become a rarity.  Two years ago as I began the 2011 Project I almost immediately did a piece that was An Homage to the Fast Pass.  Here is my latest Fast Pass inspired piece.  Today all those holographic foil bits were sparkling in the sun as it dried (see below).

And yes, you can get prints of this piece from Society 6 or even have it as a case on your phone.