Here’s another collage in the series I did. When I decided that the first one needed help, I set about cutting linoblocks. I’ve cut three so far, all of birds, and I have three others that need to be cut. No problem collaging on the slightly rough gessoed surface, so that’s good.
I’ve gotten more use out of this swallow linoblock than all the other ones. The shape of a swallow fascinates me. Like the songbird collage, this one has printed text from the first draft of the short story ‘Emily’s Fifth Birthday’ that I wrote at Clarion last year. I like the way hand-written text looks as a background image, so I’ve taken to scanning my letters to friends for future use. Collage is all about building up a store of stuff you’ve made so you can reuse them later.
