Baby's Head & A Pear

A baby's head and a pear
the Aztecs carry up the stair.
From a spigot rainbows flow then
stop
at the light and wonder why
that curlicue is there.

You Decide

Some of the imagery in the collage I made today makes sense since it was recently the air and water show and I recently visited the Bahai temple. The rest is a mystery.

Snake & Snake's Friend

Blue Evolution

I made this collage on Sun Aug 21 2011. I chose to go with the color blue and images that were in some way surprising or intriguing to me. It's interesting that hands appear here as well as in Feel Good in My Body, the collage I did a few days earlier. I like the vivid colors, the sense of forward motion, evolution, swimming to flight, earth, water, sky, the zigzags implied in the landscape. There is something humorous about those webbed hands, something serious about that bird's expression.

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Feel Good in My Body

On Aug 19 2011 I made this little collage. I stuck with orange shades and images of light. The upturned hand didn't really fit with the orange and light theme, but I was compelled to include it. The words "Feel Good in My Body" appeared, pre-cut, out of nowhere. I must have cut that out some time ago and it just slipped out from between the pages of one of the magazines. Those words tied the hand image and light images together for me: for what are we but sparks of light within the structure of the body? I included several details of the collage just for fun. It turns out the collage was a little preview of the next day's activities. On Aug 20 I saw Terrence Malick's Tree of Life. It was full of similar images of light in darkness.

SpiralSquareCross Collage

I deconstructed some magazine images of crosses, squares, and spirals. Then I constructed this collage. Some of the symbols were invisible to me until I put it all together. I didn't believe I had found any crosses, but I see them now.

Anagram Art

...from my name!

This one's titled "A Tot Pot"

If you're lucky you'll get to see all the Anagram Art created from our names which we illustrated in the second meeting of the Cultivating a Daily Creative Practice workshop!

The Book of Symbols, Day 1: Egg

Day 1: Egg, collage, 6x6 in., Otto

I decided to create an image expressing each archetypal symbol entry in the ARAS new Book of Symbols that I received in the mail yesterday.  It’s a beautiful book in every way and so inspiring.  So here’s my collage of Day 1: Egg.  To follow my progress, click patottoart.