Quiet Celebration - az

Please allow me to celebrate the life of a very special greyhound named Sonja.
She inspired many drawings.
These are just a few. 

MCP's Sonja 

2000 ~ 2014

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the book of dreams -kes

tonight

wish i
the wish

have might i
wish i
may i
wish i







tonight

see i
first star
light star
bright star








credits:
my own daily drawings in a 5 x 5" handmade book left behind in a vacated artist studio space
unwanted book given to me by my scavenging scarab friend andrea zimon
book poem by andrea silver and karen tribul
book assembled by andrea silver using offset lithography silkscreen and letterpress
book design printed at the university of the arts 1992

Collage -az

I didn't really explore collage until I was much older. I started somewhat indirectly. I would draw randomly all over a sheet of paper to use up the whole sheet of paper. Sometimes they would work as whole, but if they didn't they would get cut up or covered up. 

The below was one of my earlier forays in to the world of collage.

This one shows a little more practice. 

The below remains one of my favorites. The art work consists of drawings over many decades. The half face on the left was started in my twenties, which I reworked later, still didn't like, cut it half, and then liked it better. The face in the middle is actually a painting inspired by a photograph of my cherubic looking cousin as a little girl. Needless to say, I didn't catch any of the angelic inspiration of the photograph, but I liked the picture minus a wonky eye which I covered up. While that painting was completed over ten years ago, the figure on the right was done as a Christmas cards for friend a few years ago.  The drawing on the bottom right was a foam stamp (foam from a meat tray) that I created fairly recently. I had done this as a kid and decided to pick up the practice again. 

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