Best of Mother Earth

In asking for guest authors, South African Painter, Thea Burger chimed right in. She’s the one who painted the tea cup in my header.

She asked if I’d write a guest piece for her too and I thought what a lovely idea.  We plan to post on the same day!

I have an artist in me, I see things artfully, think things artfully, and some say I speak artfully (blush).  I have a portfolio of work from high school and college. Nothing of which I’d reproduce today. Drawings of faces in pencil that are so minutely detailed, I’d need a magnifying glass to work on ? I just don’t have the patience or expression for that anymore. I am not an artist that produces things day in day out, I am not an artist who uses a medium that one might find a bit of it in my hair, I lack a niche, a consistant medium, and I certainly lack discipline.  I want to dress arty – you know one glance and you’d think – yeah that’s an artist. Nope -  I dress ala JCPenny. I have no idea what image that portrays. Probably just very ordinary.  UGH – I hate being ordinary!

I did set up a studio finally for my current collage work, and when I am inspired I will do a piece or two. My very old oak drawing table pleases me greatly as a piece of furniture.  As an active surface for producing art ?  Sometimes it looks more like a closet.  Last month I did 4 collages in preparation for a conference.  I liked the way the pieces turn out. It satisfies me to create them but past that, I don’t see anyone saying hey – are those for sale?

This to me describes the classic starving artist persona, if I had to earn a living as an artist. I’d die.  Yet there is this part of me that wonders what might that be like? What does it feel like to be a full fledged in demand artist? Thus the title of my post:  Mother Earth is a Collage Artist.   I’m just going to fake it.

Below is a cropped section of one of those four collages I did last month.




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