Telling the Truth through Rorschach Collage

"Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know." - J.R.R. Tolkien

'Cosmic Mitosis' 2015

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

 

'From Dust, To Dust' 2015

 “You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” - Beverly Rubic

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake." - Francis Bacon 




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Collage from the Archives

Matthew 10:16  2010

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, 

be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"It is ironic that, while concentrating on the defense of our country from enemies 

who would destroy it from without, 

we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within."

​                                                                                              - Rachel Carson​

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Collage from the Archives

I am giving a talk tonight at Shenandoah Arts Council on Collage as a tool for healing 

and am giving monthly upcoming hands-on workshops on the same at Mountain Mystic Company, 

If you're local to the DC, MD, northern VA, and WV area and interested, 

check out this Facebook group for details.

Some of my collages from the archives for inspiration...

(technically they are mixed media assemblages; they are 3D)

Mindfield 2007

Tecknowledgy:  Take a Byte  2007

Fuel  2009

 Ants ended up invading the last one to eat the candy.  I loved this as it added so much to the concept I was attempting to capture, with the collage being about food.  It was interactive art with the ants crawling around and eating it.  Now the candy is long gone.  :)

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Joy in the Woodland Yard

Want to know what delights me? Discovering a native wildflower in the yard that I hadn't seen here before. Prenanthes serpentaria Gall-of-the-Earth, apparently used for Rattlesnake bite. Let's hope I never need it. It is growing within 30' of where I think Copperheads are denning; wonder if it works for their bite too. It's an alexiteric. Only 4 plants, so I won't be harvesting any, but hoping to support it spreading...

Here are various websites I used to verify the species of the Genus, which was also called Nalabus.