The Joy of Rejection

The Darkening of the Light

Simple Machine

Mechanical Man

Born of Frustration

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Various pieces culled from a fashion magazine. The black and white, sleek legs is vintage paper from the 1950's.

Verboten

              My first Dada inspired piece. Verboten means the word "forbidden" in German.

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2 new collages with vintage ledger paper used for the background.

Catching Dali in the Moon

This piece celebrates Dali in a subtle, surreal kind of way. Several pieces of vintage paper were cut out and utilized for this piece.

The Running of the Meats

The meat picture came from a 1950's recipe booklet entitled How To Freeze Foods. The 3 running children were cut from an old book about how to be a good parent. Apparently this collage has been making the rounds on Tumblr. Pretty cool.

Let's Bury Tomorrow

Two Men With A Secret

The illustrations for this collage were found in an old Reader's Digest Condensed book. These old and often dusty, worthless looking books you find for a dime a dozen at thrift stores contain some incredibly interesting and underappreciated illustrations from little known artists. For those who are fans of old illustrations, these sad looking books are worth checking out.

Homo Marxian

It's rather rare to find any interesting books about communism in thrift stores and if one is found, it will usually be filled with hilarious and scary anecdotes about communists and in the same breath you will be pressured to convert to Christianity if you already haven't, just because you wanted to read a book about communism.
A couple of books I've found over the years stand out, not only because it's unusual at least around these parts to find any books on communism that aren't thinly veiled religious tomes but also because these two particular books have excellent illustrations. The books whose illustrations of communism should be noted are The Naked Communist and Communism, An American's View. Granted, The Naked Communist has a religious slant to it and the preaching begins towards the end when you've been about scared out of your wits by the communist boogieman but never mind the text, it's the illustrations we're after!
Each book was filled with some great pieces, and the second book mentioned, Communism, An American's View, is full of woodcuts of Stalin, Marx, Lenin, and other creatures often found in texts of this sort, the artwork being completed by Leonard Everett Fisher, who also designed several postage stamps.
The pieces in the collage were culled from these two books.

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.