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Hello friends. This is 'Day 47' of my mandatory leave from my work site due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and today I have another collage to share with you, entitled Emerging.
This was a very tedious project! I have labored over this piece on and off for several months. One of my goals since being on a forced leave from my job has been to complete unfinished projects and this was one of them.
I started with the black and white image of the woman, which I cut from a vintage magazine. I've forgotten which magazine it was, but I do remember that it was an ad of some kind. My interest was piqued when I noticed that it was a skinny column ad where the woman's left side was cropped so that it would fit in the column. I thought it would be a fun visual challenge to see what I could do with it.
Then I paged through Flowers, A Guide For Your Garden (a public library book sale find) for all of the floral elements. There are two volumes in the guide, each about 700 pages, so plenty of images to choose from! It was a slow process - for me anyway. When I saw a flower that looked liked it would work, I cut it out to see how it looked. It requires a bit of imagination and sometimes I'll go through all the trouble of cutting out an image and then realize that I don't like it at all or that my imagination had something else in mind. Nevertheless, it is good for the brain to do these kinds of exercises.
Gluing it all down was also tedious. I was very reluctant to dismantle the whole thing. I was concerned that it wouldn't fit back together correctly (which was probably superstitious) so I used glue dots and worked slowly and carefully to adhere all the bits in situ!
I am happy with the result, and I hope 'Emerging' brings a little bit of joy to you today. Goodness knows we all need it during these long stay at home days.
Till next time.
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