From the archives. Another experiment in planned vs. unplanned. The planned part is that I pulled the clippings from which I cut the background clippings from only boxes of black, grey, white, and brown--although a little bit of blue popped in! The unplanned part is that I let chance determine the locations of the black painted lines: their positions are pairs of integers in sequence from a random number generator. (If you want to try out a similar technique, just google "random number generator," and you'll get multiple choices.)
Something else spontaneous happened, after I scanned this. When I sprayed it with sealant so it would be sturdy for mailing as a postcard, the spray made the big zig-zag of antique ledger paper translucent, so the writing on the opposite side showed through. The Universe wanted it to be more unplanned!
Great, love the story of this collage's creation, and the extra bit of chance thrown in at the end, show-through is always great I think, accidental or not (although more often than not it does seem to be mostly unplanned! ).... and this makes me think of 'Zig Zag Wanderer' by Captain Beefheart, a soundtrack to this collage that goes perfectly.
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