Collages & Ruminations 2016

Collage # 7

 Lots of HeART work this past six months, all stable now, the visitor season complete, now trying to get some much needed ideas out of me head...
Collage work with all the images i have from the season past, also going back to ideas/images i worked with back in 2011...
I also want to start writing more again this off season, combine the writing/images in the same piece... 
i think i will deactivate myself from FB, there seems to be more verbal contention there since the election, and a lot of that seems to be more false information then i desire to wade through... makes one start to wonder if these folks are really "friends"... but i was the one that asked most of the 135 to be my friend... and most of them i only know through FB... maybe that's why i don't have many friends outside of the social media network. it's a superficial friendship at best.

Collage # 3

So this is a good time to bring about some changes that i can have some control over... and we can watch what happens with the new political team for the next four years... after all somebody voted them in office, and with the grace and mercy of God they might just get something right.
So again lets bite into another peanut cluster, look up at the CHRISTmas tree and remember what this CHRISTmas season is all about the birth of the Savior and Light of the world...
Lets get back to basics and stop complicating and creating so much contention in this world... life is a test to see/prove that we will obey the Savior...
and remember we are Spiritual being first and we human/ physical being next... thus we are Spiritual beings having a physical/human experience. 

Sketch book idea for Collage # 6

Drawing/Writing are they the same thing?  marks on a paper or page, some of the marks being easer to understand/read then others...
sometimes i like the black and white marks of a sketch better then what i may turn it into later in the finished piece... I love to draw and have for most of my life, my next love is to color inside the lines... and on rare times ignore the lines and spread color all over everywhere... i think my love of color within the lines has come from my building/construction background... there is more then likely more to it then just that... but i don't need/want to go there now.

Collage # 4

Ya know that peanut cluster was pretty dry... and some of this swing to get back to writing is getting pretty dry also...
drawing/writing are much the same, to get good at either one  i must practice every day, both are mechanical skills... both also take practice moving ideas or knowledge from head/heart out and down an arm to fingers and the mechanical device, pencil/pen, to make the mark on the paper that is the same as the image in head or heart.
Both skills can be very abstract or very true to life depending on how i choose to use/practice them...
Some people always what a meaning for my work... and ya know some days i don't know what that meaning is myself...
Foe sure my work is about what goes on around me on any given day,week or month... because i try to use the process of observe, listen, discern, then speak/draw/write... so my max time limit or deadline on a piece is about a week, depending on where that falls between sunrise and sunset.

Collage #2

                       
This here, Collage #2, is the first completed piece, completed at the end of my working season of November '16. This collage started with a little girl, the one on the white horse, and her family in the visitor center coming up to me with a travel magazine saying this is me!... said i; well autograph it so i can keep it here to remind me you where here... she was so excited... That is the image in the top part of the collage, the remainder of the collage are the bits and pieces collected during the remainder of that week.

The remaining two collages, #5 & #6   posted below are other pieces i have completed since being off of my seasonal work at the visitor center... during my work season i do pieces called RUMINATIONS that are photographic images i make from around the visitor center with computer generated text as a vail over the top of the photo image. i usually create 12-16 of these per season dealing with feeling and thoughts about the ongoing season at the time.
So again drawing/writing/photo images...
collage & ruminations...

Collage# 6

Collage # 5

Rumination # 16

 CHEERS !!