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

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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.

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IN A DREAM

It's What We Dream

It's not often that I do collages that aren't in 3D but I do enjoy creating them as much as other styles of collage. In a thrift store I came across a baby book with wonderful and expressive faces and cut out all of them to use in future collages. Only 2 pieces of vintage paper were used here: the fish and the little man riding on top of the fish.

The collage depicts the strangeness and surreal images we often experience in our dreams. Often in my dreams I journey to faraway lands and have vivid experiences in bright colors. For me, each dream is a journey into a new experience and also insight into my subconscious self.

The Forgotten Ghostess of Science

I'm not sure I will keep the title of this 3d collage created just last week. Just can't seem to find a title I'm truly satisfied with.
In any case, I am fascinated with old instruments and technology and love to incorporate it into collages when I can. In this particular piece, I wanted to depict a ghostly woman rising from old technology in a perhaps not so subtle hint that women have often been ignored about their contributions to the industrial revolution and technological advances in particular. However it is natural that those who view this piece will have their own interpretations of what it means to them and that I find fascinating in itself.
The instrument on the right is a vintage meteorological mechanism.
Most of the paper used in this collage was not vintage in origin, sans the ribcage used as a transparent skirt.

This latest piece remains untitled. The papers used are a mix of vintage and contemporary papers. My intent here was to show the rich in color and the poor in black and white to depict that the poor remain invisible and the more affluent retain a lot of attention in all aspects of life.

Stampadusa

This was a quick piece I put together after scanning a beautiful image from a book called Hood's Own: Or, Laughter From Year to Year. Being a Further Collection of His Wit and Humour, printed in 1862. I was lucky enough to come across the book while perusing the stacks at the local university library. Go out and search your university library for an original copy of this. It is full of beautiful and often hilarious illustrations.
Here's the original scan

The stamps were from a collection I've had since I was a child. The collage was created for an article I wrote.

And the original book cover of Hood's Own