weaving light
waves that cross over
in curved lines,
waves that land
inside the pause of the edge,
waves that linger cusped–
a small piece
of time, and yet it
fills me up–
I balance,
holding on to tides synapsed
between spells and signs
Peter Mungkuri’s “Country with Trees”, above, is the current Kick-About prompt. The layering of the different elements got me thinking about an idea from Claudia McGill that I had copied and saved which I recently found when sorting out files.
She took a magazine and tore pages partially out to create a new layered collage-like image. I did not have any magazines with trees, but I have lots of surfing magazines I bought on eBay because they are full of images of sea and sky to use in collage. So I layered the ocean.
My poem is a shadorma quadrille for dVerse, using the word provided by Linda, linger.
Wow, what a stunning effect and technique – hooray for surfing magazines! The shadorma is beautiful; I can almost taste the salt…
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Thanks Sun. I am always missing the ocean. I have used surfing magazines for collage references for a long time because they have the best photos of the ocean. Page after page of them.
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Love seeing the progression of your collage! I’ve been thinking lately of trying collage as I haven’t done since I was a kid.
“ waves that land
inside the pause of the edge”
Cool imagery!
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You should! I find it both engrossing and peaceful to spend a few hours rearranging images. There are often wonderful surprises.
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Beautiful images and words! Thanks for sharing.
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thanks for reading.
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You’re welcome.
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Finding that balance is something to be hoped for. Lovely words and the collages are so interesting with the layers.
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Thanks Merril. Claudia is full of great ideas. This has many further possibilities as well.
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K.
So expressive of the magic of movement, in art as in life.
pax,
dora
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Thanks Dora.
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You’re welcome.
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Again, Kerfe, I’m left thinking… the moving image / animation is beckoning you! 😀
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Can you teach an old dog new tricks? My mind is already overfilled.
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of course! 😀
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wow well done, love your poem and those collages certainly give the feel of waves rolling in!
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Thanks Kate. I love the ocean.
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and me, and this is a great way to capture it!
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These collages are great. I love all the blues stacked up like that. Really wonderful. Your poem fits well with the images.
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Thanks Suzanne. It’s an interesting way to do collage.
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Amazing work – both in words and photo collages. Love the process and final work.
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Thanks Grace.
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I can’t seem to comment on your blog, but I did like your use of color.
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I love seeing your process, Kerfe 💜
Thanks for sharing with us, always.
Much love,
David
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Thanks David. It’s also helpful to me to keep track of the way I get from here to there–I’m gland to share.
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I’d love see your processes for other projects too 😀
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I’m not good ar remembering to photo each step, but I’ll try to include more.
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Waves are fascinating, when you stop to think: water, sound, light, all carried by them. Your collage and poetry connect these three different types of waves.
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I hadn’t even noticed that but it’s true–waves have many dimensions. Thanks Ingrid.
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I’m behind on reading. Such a perfect way to build waves and clouds! They remind me of some Japanese paintings I’ve seen. I might try that technique also.
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Building is exactly the right word. I will definitely explore it more.
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