Trash & trashy paperback.
Made for and exposed at the exhibition “GREEN ART: Think Art & Ecology” at l’Auberge de Jeunesse de Mons, Belgium on 3/23/2012.
Relationship XXXII – “The City Re-Embraces the United Colors of Cha Cha”
Relationship XXXII – “The City Re-Embraces the United Colors of Cha Cha”, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.
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Collage Relationship XXXII (#32) “The City Re-Embraces the United Colors of Cha Cha”
Was completed and posted on 2/19/2012 in Cagliari on the island of Sardinia in Italy.
I started by using the Album cover “Cha Cha Cha” by Raoul Martinez and His Orchestra and added stuff I found on the ground in Cagliari plus some trash I brought with me.
I left it on a utility box in a small park at Piazza Emilio Lussu next to a painting by another artist who had a strong presence in the city with his quirky figures.
Click this photo to see where it was left in Cagliari, Sardinia:
click this photo to see the original album cover:
Relationship XXXI “Salute to the Revolution”
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my 31st collage: Relationship XXXI “Salute to the Revolution”
This piece took more than 7 hours over 2 days while visiting Florence.
Completed on 12/31/2011 and left on 1/1/2012 in Florence, Italy.
Placed on a wall at the covered entrance to Costa de’ Magnoli.
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Relationship XXX – “Spring’s Hottest Celebrity Anarchists”
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My collage: Relationship XXX – “Spring’s Hottest Celebrity Anarchists” was completed and left on 12/1/2011 on the back of an information board at Green Key Beach (Robert K. Rees Memorial Park) in New Port Richey, Florida.
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Relationship XXIX – “Don’t You Shush Me”
Relationship XXIX was completed and left on 8/29/2011 (my birthday) along the “Icon Walk” wall just outside The Icon Factory, a cool urban gallery & shop at the corner of Aston Place and Bedford Lane in the Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland. –
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here is the original record album cover I started from:
Relationship XXVIII “The Perils of a Burnished Ego”
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Completed & posted in Atlanta, Georgia on Memorial Drive at Harden Street on 7/24/2011.
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Relationship XXVII “Life is a Lethal Contest”
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Relationship XXVII – “Life is a Lethal Contest”
Hand cut & paste collage on “None but the Lethal Heart – A Mike Shayne Mystery” by Brett Halliday It was completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
This was mailed (along with #XXV) to an online acquaintance, Robert Warner in New York in June of 2011.
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Relationship XXVI – “Keeping Company with a Couch Potato”
This piece was completed while in Atlanta, Georgia and then mailed to Gregory Travis in Brookville, New York on 7/8/2011
RECYCLED TRASH AS ART:
I use old, cheesy record covers and trashy paperback book covers as a starting point for my hand-cut and paste collages. I then use only objects found on the ground, in the trash, junk mail or recycling bin. Sometimes incorporating my own Polaroid photographs. Then I leave them out in public as street art for everyone to enjoy (or destroy.) I have also started mailing small pieces out to some people.
Relationship XXV – “Now that you’re all Patriotic and Stuff”
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RAY JOHNSON FAN CLUB
This was the first collage where I used the “Ray Johnson Fan Club “L.A.R.” stamp.
Relationship XXV – ” Now that you’re all Patriotic and Stuff”
completed and posted on the street on July 4, 2011
Left along Euclid Avenue near Moreland Ave.NE in Little Five Points.
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Relationship XXIV – “Death Has Three Moms”
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Relationship XXIV – “Death Has Three Moms”
This was my first collage on a book cover though I’d been planning to do it for a while.
“Death has three lives: A Mike Shayne Mystery” by Brett Haliday.
It was completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 6/19/2011 while spending the night in the hospital accompanying my mother who was recovering from open-heart surgery.
This was mailed (along with #XXVII) to an online acquaintance, Robert Warner in New York in June of 2011.
see the original paperback book cover:
FANCLUB 13 