(To read full post, you may need to click post title to view in your browser.)
There is something about a grid that intrigues me. When looking for a diversion I often spend a few gleeful minutes with my trusty paper cutter. A little print had been floating around the studio for a few weeks. It was a nothing print -- I'd used a leaf shape as a mask and then, later, doodled overtop with sumi ink. It wasn't an improvement but I did love the combination of the slightly greyed orange background, the weird grey veining of the leaf and the sharp contrast of the rich black ink. Unfortunately, I got chopping before I thought to take a picture.
Here, though, the middle square will give an idea:
I love a mix of organic and hand-drawn shapes along with clean, mass-produced graphics. And I try not to overthink these grid collages. A quick dig through my stash yielded a handful of possibilities for additional papers.
I chopped up stripes and dots, black ruled refill paper, an old glue-print on a book page and some waste paper from punching out black dots. Here's a little video auditioning the various squares:
It's the whole created by the almost random selection of papers that appeals to me. If I tried to deliberately punch the holes in the black paper (the darkest area of a photocopy actually) don't think I could have created quite the same energy. Here's a close-up:
Four 5x5-inch collage cards.
And the satisfaction of completing something in the studio! See you again soon.
