Abuzz About Assemblage . . .

Jen Worden wrote last month about how assemblage tends to come together in waves . . . you'll go weeks without any new assemblage work to show because you're tweaking this, adding that, waiting for the glue or the paint to dry and then - voila! - suddenly you have a bunch of pieces done. Today is "that day" for me.

Remember the bee piece I started back at Artfest in April? Here it is, all installed in its cigar box . . . the surface of the box had been flocked, so it felt like velvet. Don't ever let anyone tell you painting on velvet is easy. Or collaging on velvet either, for that matter.



And here's another piece that I've been working on for awhile. The picture on the left is one of me with my mom, taken by my dad over 30 years ago. Through the keyhole, you can see another picture, this one of my mom and dad while they were dating in college.



I call it "Wishes." My dad died a little over five years ago, and my mom and I both wish he was still with us. I'm working on another version of the photo on the left for my mom as a *belated* birthday gift. She doesn't drop by the blog very often, so I'll scan a photo of it and post it before I mail it off to her . . . I really enjoy reworking the same images in different ways.