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| Her Autumn Journey |
As we (fingers AND toes crossed) move towards fall, I'm working mostly with digital collage. I love the flexibility of the medium – not to mention how forgiving it is! I can make mistakes without losing anything. Nothing is permanent. It makes me happy to
share my work on my Tumblr and here.
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| How Raven Stole The Sun |
A couple of weeks ago, I asked friends to inspire me to create digital collages by offering me a basic idea for a visual story, a single word, or a link to an image to work with. Working my way through the list actually gives me some structure, and that makes it easier to get going on new pieces.
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| Maid, Mare and Moon |
I found myself with an interesting little mental hurdle. For a while, I was fretting, just a little, over what I thought the friends who made suggestions expected to see vs. what I wanted to create from the various ideas. Creating for someone else, vs. creating for myself/the sake of creation.
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| She Has Turned The Page |
For example, this piece was sparked from the idea of "a secret forest grove deep inside an abandoned factory building." This is what I ended up doing with the idea. In the end, I decided that the ideas were meant to serve as springboards and that what I did with them was strictly up to me.
I know that when I responded to your request for suggested collage ideas, I had no particular expectations of what you might use as images or what your design might look like... I found it interesting to let my brain come up with word groupings that might spark creative ideas, rather than specific concepts, and I simply sent you the first one that came to mind... I am really enjoying your collages and also seeing the common threads in your imagery, and how the collage technique shows a slightly different aspect of the Stacy than your drawings..
ReplyDeleteThanks! Your idea was one of my favorites, especially because it was one of the ones I tackled after I decided to really relax into the work. Using digital collage techniques allows me to create images that are fully dreamlike - real and unreal images mixed together to tell a story that will always exist somewhere between the mind of the viewer and the mind of the teller.
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