Slideshow - 60 Days: Collage Journal 2014

Become (Other)Wise

Who Will Protect the Children?

 

More than 100 Children

For the last 6o days I have created a collage each day based on my reading of the news--most often sourced from The New York Times. This work is part of a series of collage journals I have kept that were first inspired by the art of Peter Jacobs beginning in 2012. Jacobs has kept a collage journal since 2005.

The art is created though traditional collage methods and digital.  I prepare substrates using newspaper, newspaper images, gesso, pan pastels, acrylic paint, watercolor, watercolor paper, and other found papers. I then import these substrates for use each day and remix these with images from The New York Times.  The finished collage is my take on that days news.

I could not agree more with Jacobs who writes:

“The Collage Journal has become integrated in my daily life as a meditation, contemplation and re-evaluation of culture and identity.”

The slideshow below represents the last 60 days of news.

Music: Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy & Alexandre Tharaud, "Keyboard Concerto in D Minor"