Climate Change of Life

Backgrounds from children's science books.  Man with a neck brace from a medical book. That woman is Maude Stettiner (1931) painted by Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) Russian born surrealist painter, set and costume designer.

Happy Hogmanay!

To all at Kollage Kit - all the best for 2017!

ten thousand things

Title from Chapter 42 of the Tao Te Ching:

Tao gives birth to one,

One gives birth to two,

Two gives birth to three,

Three gives birth to ten thousand beings.

Ten thousand beings carry yin on their backs and embrace yang in their front,

Blending these two vital breaths to attain harmony.

THEME: Janus for January

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, one looking towards the past, one towards the future. It is conventionally thought that the month of January is named for Janus.
   
Your challenge: Make a collage with a Janus head on it, one face towards the left and one face towards the right. The faces don't necessarily have to be past-future in orientation. However you want to do them—including absurd, dada, surrealist, whatever—is fine. As for the part of the collage that isn't Janus-faced... it's up to you! =smile=
 
Happy New Year! Shall I do the next month of themes, or would someone else like to volunteer?

Wishing You a Creepy Christmas

I have a lot of collage resource material. I have it all pretty much organized too. Most of this collage is made with images from a book called Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas. So it was fairly easy for me to find a lot of creepy images. By the way that is the face of Krampus, a horned, anthropomorphic folklore figure described as "half-goat, half-demon", who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts! Pretty scary.

tacky overlaps with creepy

Believe it or not, my conscious intention was that this should look either horrifying or just plain horrible. =laugh=

In case you can't read what the grumpy cat (underneath reindeer's shark head) is saying: "It's the most terrible time of the year."

He promised her wealth and richness, but then ......

   
Another tricollage just recently made by Josephine (starter)., Lynn (continued) and Sabine (finished)..
not made for Xmas but I thought it suits the theme very well.