The Beauty of Bent Woo Collage

**PLEASE NOTE*** Canvas is a bit bent in places (see pics) due to this piece being made and remade over several years. Also frame is of fair to middling quality (definitely not high-end), and has sliding back and stand. *********************** _________ Part of the 'Abstract Placing - Daily Edition,' - objects I found that day, mostly on the walk from home to my studio, are used to create a finished piece. _________ I believe in the power of objects. Each carries its own story, and sometimes that story breaks. I find the broken, discarded, left behind, and pick them up. My brain is in tune to a certain theme that day, and I can feel the piece draw me towards it and drop into that bucket in my mind labeled YES. Why yes to some and no to others? Honestly, I don't know. I've considered it, and the closest I can come is describing what is not. It is not the color, or the shape, or the size. And yet it is all those things, and more. The things that got a "yes," had I seen on any other day, in any other light, I may not have grabbed. They each own their own spot in time. Once the found objects come back to my studio with me, they are placed next to the canvas in order of discovery. Then I got to work. Each object has its own space, waiting for it, that it needs to occupy. And it becomes both easier and harder as I progress, as each item's spot changes shape and angle and altitude with every other object's placement. Once each thing finds and slides into its space, which I imagine has the sound of what David Foster Wallace called, "The click of a well-made box," a story starts being told. A story of flow and fit, balance and disruption, and of calm. I wonder sometimes how I know a piece is done. With these abstract placings it's easy: once everything that has been collected is arranged, the tale has now been told - a brief moment of fit and flow, now frozen.

Collage:Found Objects on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14 W x 11 H x 0.8 D in

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