Posted on Monday 24th November, 2008 by Chris in Collage
We’ve been busy with the glue pot.
Here are a couple of recent experiments in collage what I have done. Notice the daring use of materials in the first example, most notably sandpaper used to represent hills and valleys. Symbolically (and less charitable readers probably think this is all a load of symbolics) this hints at how those who live and work in the countryside have to take the rough with the smooth. Can you guess who the handsome chappie on the gingham tractor is?
[Did I just write 'gingham tractor'? Oh, blimey!]
In the second example, I have again, as the great Frida Kahlo often did, decided to use a self portrait. The daredevil rocking horse rider is none other than…ME! I was five years old at the time. Sadly, I have gained a few pounds in weight since those days.
The sheriff’s star was cut from the bottom of a pie tray. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out the what the symbolic meaning of that might be.
