abbreviated

abbreviated

wednesday: i spent most of the day making collages. i could have stopped earlier, but i was motivated by the fact that i wanted to finish listening to my book on audio, the eighth detective. A thrilling, wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery, in which a young...
ivanhoe and dagwood

ivanhoe and dagwood

wednesday: an american icon vs a very english one. in our american tale of hero we have dagwood bumstead, disowned by his wealthy family because he fell in love with blondie, a flapper.  Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood...
glass negative

glass negative

sunday: while i was on the library of congress website i also came across this woman, from the collection of c. m. bell, late 1800s. i will need to start a digital portrait collection...
a strange story

a strange story

friday: how do you make things out of all disparate parts? i have so much paper, old books, magazines and ephemera. it would be nice to use them up. but of course before i do that, i have to look at images on the internet (really i am making an excuse to waste some...