Swept Away
photomontage on paper, 8 3/4" x 9 1/2"
Eleanor Roosevelt's Dress
mixed media collage: magazines, paper, text in black pencil
9.5" x 10"
mixed media collage: magazines, paper, text in black pencil
9.5" x 10"
This actually is Eleanor Roosevelt's dress. The writing in the folds is one of her famous quotes: "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Kabuki Flyer
mixed media collage: magazines on inked paper
9.25" x 7.75"
mixed media collage: magazines on inked paper
9.25" x 7.75"
first publication: Shakespeare's Monkey Revue, Vol 2, Issue 3
Kabuki Flyer is like a commingle of kabuki with anime. She might be a super femme girl warrior zooming off to seek vengeance or else to maintain peace.
Bird–Woman
collage: magazines, rice papers, poem in black pencil, 8.5" x 11"
(please click on image to enlarge)
collage: magazines, rice papers, poem in black pencil, 8.5" x 11"
(please click on image to enlarge)
Poem written inside skirt and wing:
I am bird-woman
both pretend and real
beak made of lips
claws of feet
words are my wings
when I fly away
my twin hearts beat
more than prescience
I am bird-woman
both pretend and real
beak made of lips
claws of feet
words are my wings
when I fly away
my twin hearts beat
more than prescience
first published in Pirene's Fountain
She Rises
photomontage on paper, 7.25" x 6.75"
photomontage on paper, 7.25" x 6.75"
explanation to him
this creature with a half eggshell head
is not a barren womb, emptied of eggs
or unfertile eggs
she is not empty, not death and not not loving
seeds blow everywhere
odd things combine
she is cobwebs and trash in the corner of a room
a nest, composting peels and rinds, a torn bit of cloth
all blown together
somehow she manages to fly
this creature with a half eggshell head
is not a barren womb, emptied of eggs
or unfertile eggs
she is not empty, not death and not not loving
seeds blow everywhere
odd things combine
she is cobwebs and trash in the corner of a room
a nest, composting peels and rinds, a torn bit of cloth
all blown together
somehow she manages to fly
Aerial Desire
collage: magazines, papers, ink, white pencil on paper, 11" x 8.5
collage: magazines, papers, ink, white pencil on paper, 11" x 8.5
first published in Woman Made Gallery, Her Mark 2008
how to silence rulers
to make a collage
with right angles
that fit into a frame
measure carefully as sides
expand and contract
with hungry
middles whose mouths
eat feet
try to count how many
cross the sky
inches lose
track of the years
since you or I
climbed a tree
paper crumples
shadow of hand
over a crooked smile
there's only
a scissor edge
between us
to make a collage
with right angles
that fit into a frame
measure carefully as sides
expand and contract
with hungry
middles whose mouths
eat feet
try to count how many
cross the sky
inches lose
track of the years
since you or I
climbed a tree
paper crumples
shadow of hand
over a crooked smile
there's only
a scissor edge
between us
look into the web
collage: magazines and paper (please click for larger version)
collage: magazines and paper (please click for larger version)
first published in Pirene's Fountain
collage: sheet music, magazines, colored paper, 6" x 5"
The Egg
Her brother dared to say he loved me.
She spit on him,
I'm not leaving you a thing!
She hated my pale skin.
The night she died
I dreamed she gave me an egg.
It felt hardboiled;
I was about to peel the shell
and take a bite
when she demanded it back.
I threw the egg at her.
Years of rage splattered
down her face
distorted with the pain
of her nest egg sucked empty
by her own lover, the one man
she had trusted.
Her brother dared to say he loved me.
She spit on him,
I'm not leaving you a thing!
She hated my pale skin.
The night she died
I dreamed she gave me an egg.
It felt hardboiled;
I was about to peel the shell
and take a bite
when she demanded it back.
I threw the egg at her.
Years of rage splattered
down her face
distorted with the pain
of her nest egg sucked empty
by her own lover, the one man
she had trusted.
I Am Not Guilty
photomontage, 7 3/4" x 8 1/4"
I keep a notebook with quick starts of collages using non-permanent double-stick tape. (I highly recommend this type of visual journaling.) Those hands held the brick wall for a long while until I decided to work on it. The rest came together in that happy accident way.
Flying Metaphorically: Under the Rooster
collage: magazines, joss paper, metallic watercolor on rice paper on mirror
12" x 12"
12" x 12"
Hours of Night
collage: magazines, metallic watercolor
9 1/2" x 9 1/4"
collage: magazines, metallic watercolor
9 1/2" x 9 1/4"
"Hours of the Night" refers to ancient Egyptian mythology, concerning the realm they believed everyone entered during sleep and at death. I imagine she looks back toward her earthly existence. The split Ba-butterfly and small birds might be her soul departing.
in the wind of a sneezecollage: magazines, colored pencil, metallic watercolor, screening,
rice papers, 8 1/2" x 8 3/8"
in the wind of a sneeze
i wanted to build a house
the way ants do
hauling tiny crumbs
four times their own size
its brick walls would stack neatly
i wanted people inside
but didn't plan on a naked man
and a girl floating
as if to escape
my scissors took over
irregular rectangles fell
bricks sailed
into dizzying alignments
and windows flew away
on the wings of black birds
collage and poem first printed in Mannequin Envy
rice papers, 8 1/2" x 8 3/8"
in the wind of a sneeze
i wanted to build a house
the way ants do
hauling tiny crumbs
four times their own size
its brick walls would stack neatly
i wanted people inside
but didn't plan on a naked man
and a girl floating
as if to escape
my scissors took over
irregular rectangles fell
bricks sailed
into dizzying alignments
and windows flew away
on the wings of black birds
collage and poem first printed in Mannequin Envy
photo by Matthew Casey
"The contemplation of objects,
the image which takes wing from
the dreams they stir up,
these are the song..."
from Mallarme
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