I spent much of the weekend sorting through several boxes of clipped art, and harvesting pages from my stack of magazines. I sat on the floor and distributed the clippings to special piles. Along the way I composed two and a half collages. This is actually the haphazard way I come up with most of […]
A clip from yesterday’s newspaper (about the stock market) pasted onto mostly found papers. I found a piece of wood veneer that looked like a cartoon character; I just darkened what looked like the facial detail.
I’ve got a basic idea for what I’m going to write for NaNo, as well as a list of characters […]
We’ve had bad news every day at work the last several weeks. I work for a corporation which is in retail, and retail is doing almost as poorly as the stock market. Another “bad news meeting” is scheduled for this afternoon. I hope I still have a job afterwards. You know the economy is bad […]
I guess I’m in an abstracting mode of photography.
Yesterday I drove to Sherman, a town about 30 miles north of here, initially to photograph some gravestones of distant relatives for my genealogical research. As is the case with a typical huge cemetery, it wasn’t that photogenic. My cohort and I spent most of our time prowling around the back sides of buildings […]