I love showing collage artist Zoe Langosy my photography. She is the only person who has ever viewed my work and said, “Wow, that’s beautiful. I can’t wait to cut it up!” And I, quite frankly, can’t wait to see what she does with the deconstructed images. As I’ve said before, she is an inspiration to me as an artist who follows her passion with paper and at the same time is so guiding to other artists, young and old. I’m honored that her latest work includes a bit of my photography, the sunlit branches.
Last time these branches helped garb a geisha of autumn and winter. This time around the scene is decidely different in the piece she’s created for show at the UForge Gallery’s Visual Lyrics Exhibit. For this exhibit, artists were challenged to pay homage to the lyrics of their favorite song. Find out for yourself what song inspired Zoe. The show will be on view starting tonight through November 27th. More information available here: Visual Lyrics Exhibit at UForge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA.
… the leaves clustered at the bottom of this painting, like the ones you can kick about beneath a tree that has loosed all of its foliage … those leaves were created from the beautiful words of Robert Frost in poems I copied from a book. I simply wanted to see “frost on leaves.” We’ll see what the rest of the week has to hold as the moon wanes. 😉
As I explore the craft, I am having a lot of fun with layering papers of different colors and textures, and playing around with the concepts that I take for granted in my photography like illumination, the flow of water, and capturing winged creatures in flight. In the above picture, I want to add a sail boat with billowing white sails. There’s a reason why but I’ll share that reason later if I manage to make a passable sailing vessel. 😉
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