Voyeur

Megasoundscape

Recently I found a box of Ilford photography paper at a local thrift store. Surely the paper wouldn't be good for developing photos but I knew I could use it in my collages. One night I decided to use a piece of photo paper and run it through my printer, printing out a copy of a piece of vintage illustration of a sound wave I'd scanned. It worked pretty well and I set the paper under my lamp to dry. After a few days I noticed that the paper had turned a nice brown hue. Here's the result.

Birds in Nocturnus

Some pieces I recently cut out

GESTURE

The flower used here is cut from a garden book that is around 90 years old. 

Vacuum Tube Robot

A nice piece of foxed endpaper and some vintage electronics images from the 1955 electronic educational book Basic Electronics by Van Valkenburgh helped create this blue faced robot. 

Basic Electronics is filled with hundreds of images of vacuum tubes, capacitors, and funny pictures of electronic technicians. If you ever see a copy of this book at a thrift store, grab it. It's one of the best books I've seen for electronic graphics.

Check out my Vintage Science Set over at Flickr for images from this book.

Strawberries for Astra

SOLD

 

At first, this piece was going to be created for a mail art project but magically morphed itself into a small collage. I fell in love with the beautifully foxed endpaper and felt it would do better as a collage.

Creatures of Theda Bara

Infoculture: Mad

Created to just have some fun and send out my good friend Stu some collaged handmade postcards. The doll on the front of the card is an Edison Talking Doll invented by Thomas Edison in 1890. Unfortunately these dolls turned out not to be so desirable by the little Victorian ones and soon the Edison Talking Doll was no more.

Jesus Mows Stonehenge

Through the Looking Glass

Duty Now For the Future

Alfred Hitchcock's alter ego

Mad Scientist

3D collage with cut out images of scientific images from vintage paper.

SOLD

IN A DREAM