Friday, 15 June 2012

The Tower of Babelicious


I think this collage is one of my most recent successes. It sold almost immediately during it's first showing at a gallery to someone who fell in love with it. So glad it's going to a good home. It's a good piece but is it my greatest? Nope. I haven't made that one yet.
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  1. Fi Webster15 June 2012 at 22:04

    This is fascinating—by which I mean that I want to keep looking at it and re-reading the remarks. I love how the blonde is perched like a babe in cake, and I really love how you've included the spectators, the audience for your collage, inside the collage itself—going "What does it mean?" and "What are you saying?" in a perfect babel of nonsense.

    I don't suppose, Marty, that you'd be willing to reveal your method for making those speech balloons with the right font so perfectly poised inside of them...I'd love to try including some of those in a collage some time. Is it a special piece of software?

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  2. cloudnectar16 June 2012 at 10:20

    This one is amazing indeed. It travels your eyes in endless circles :)
    Believe it or not, all of Marty's word baloons are REAL re-contexualized comic book word baloons. The genius is in the choices that are made. No one else does collage like Marty Gordon!

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  3. Collage Craft16 June 2012 at 11:48

    High energy fun visual! I can see why it sold right away.

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  4. What Would Jesus Glue?16 June 2012 at 12:50

    Fi, Tim answered the question but, just to reiterate, I use real word balloons from real comic books. There's no way I could make my own and come up with anything so clever. I'm not that smart.

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  5. Crafty Dogma16 June 2012 at 17:54

    It's a cool one! What amazes me is how you keep up with all the different bits of papers, speech balloons etc. There are so many different elements in this.

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  6. Fi Webster17 June 2012 at 02:27

    I have to tell you, Marty: as a result of this collage and of thinking about comics, I had a dream last night in which everyone spoke in speech balloons! =laugh=

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  7. What Would Jesus Glue?20 June 2012 at 11:42

    That sounds like a fun dream!

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