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Inspired by Colin Johnson ... now if I look at his collages, I'm not even halfway with mine.
But it is such a nice exercise and it makes you study Colin's work even better.
Not easy at all to make a good composition and think about the colors etc.

Too Much Decor

One from the archives

the vulnerability of empty spaces

From my old, old (2011) archives. People are always telling me my collages are "simple," I guess because I've made quite a few with just 2-5 elements, but in fact, I make many with lots of different stuff on them. I chose this one because it has "empty spaces" right there in the title--inspired by the empty signs and the empty look on the girl's face.

Photo of blonde by Lina Bertucci. Agave leaves by Jillian David. Empty signs by Jeff Brouus. Statue bits from "Laocoön and his Sons" by Gruppo del Laocoonte. (Believe it or not, there's a whole Flickr group devoted to just that one statue!) Mirror is a detail from a painting by Jan van Eyck.

Re. horror vacui: Art is aggressive, always attacking empty spaces--on walls, on canvas, usw. When I make a collage, I'm always aware of how each element not only encroaches on the empty space of plain cardboard, but also the successive elements attack (by overlapping) each other. In last week's fish collage, for example, I struggled for a long time to make sure that none of the fishes' eyes were covered up.

Tattoo Morgue

Pretty busy this week so here's one from the archives.

The Sixties

One from the archives that I think fits the theme Horror Vacui.

Created in 2011 for the Flickr group Scrapeteria.

Theme of the Week: 'Horror Vacui'

Horror Vacui means (from Greek) 'fear of the empty', means in art 'filling the entire surface with detail'.
Horror Vacui is well known in painting and drawings of the outsider art and the art brut, but also in collages ... google the word and you find lots of images.
One of my favorite artist in collage is  Colin Johnson 
Let's challenge ourselves!

This is also the last theme this month and I wanna thank you for joining me this month with your inspirational art!
Who's gonna be next?

Dreams