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| back when ‘cut and paste’ actually meant scissors & glue, i was cutting pictures out of magazines & books in greenwich village, ny, alongside my father & collage artist, JOHN A. SHOWN. (living the last decade of his life in mexico, he died in nov of 2001) how could i have known at the age of 3, that my first collage, ‘pickle man’, would be the beginning of a long standing love affair with ephemera & all things shiny. though i am aware that ‘photoshop’ exists, i still prefer to use scissors & glue. i like the act of collection & assemblage; the feel of paper as it passes through the blades of a good sharp pair of scissors. i also use a single edge razor on a rubber mat when needed & a small piece of smooth plastic to burnish, squeezing out air bubbles. pretty low key & compact; my work tends to be the size of, if not smaller than, a sheet of paper. hundreds, & yes, i do have hundreds, of 2D collage fit in a single binder box. |
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