A tiny collage

3 x 3 1/2 inches
acrylic, oil, pencil and paper on cardboard

This is a tiny collage. I think I need a new glasses prescription after doing this one. I had a lot of fun. Using watercolors so much recently has made me forgotten how gorgeously intense color can be. This is the first piece in a while that I feel connected to. I put a lot of thought into it, which is usually how I paint, and I felt more in control of the medium.

I read an entry from artblog this week about a show they had seen in New Jersey. Their description of the art on display comes pretty close to how I think about making art:

"About the artist's mind, the material in front of us, and the relation between the two. It's about taking something and making it make us think of something it is not. It's about creating a new object that never existed before, and the best of the work is also about creating a new object that could never have been made prior to present times."

See artblog's (Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof) original review: In the Garden 2 & 3

This description helped me to get through the collage above. It helped me to figure out, not entirely, but come a little closer to understanding, why I am making these objects and why other people might care.