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Paper Trumpets #21: The Insurance of Company (Die Hand)
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:This collage includes a few disparate elements that came together to make a strange amalgamation. The central image of the young boy is from an...
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Paper Trumpets #22: Three Genes
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:I found this image of Gene Kelly (1912–1996) in a book about Hollywood musicals. It’s from the classic movie, Singing in the Rain. I just re-watched the...
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Paper Trumpets #23: Covering Covers
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:Sometimes you just come across magazine covers that look like finished pieces of art. I was immediately drawn to both of these magazines and knew they...
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Paper Trumpets #24: Girl & Boys
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:This is one of those pieces that I started to assemble many months ago. Probably six months or more. In many ways it could have been an elegant image...
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Paper Trumpets #25: Abstract vs. Accident
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on these collages:I was trying to push myself in a more abstract direction for this month’s column and was attempting to do work without recognizable central images. My...
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Paper Trumpets #26: Famous Myths of the Golden Age
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on these collages:I found the old library stamp card in a discarded library book called Famous Myths of the Golden Age. I remember these cards in school library books...
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Paper Trumpets #27: I Don’t Remember How It Ends
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:I saw the movie E.T. when it came out in 1982. I remember loving it very much and crying without shame. Looking back on it now, I realize that many of...
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Paper Trumpets #28: Mystery of the Triangles
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on these collages:I’ve found myself drawn to shapes in my collage work more often lately. The triangle is probably my favorite. I’m not going to get brainy and talk...
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Paper Trumpets #29: Serpents/Babies
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on these collages:The awesome baby images from these three collages are from an obscure humor book called The Baby: A Photographic Inquiry Into Certain Private...
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Paper Trumpets #30: Feeling Disconnected From Nature
Click image to enlarge:***Notes on these collages:These collages combine background images from an art instructional guide called Secrets to the Magic of Oil Painting by W. Alexander (1987) and a...
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