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It is definitely true for me that art-making can be very therapeutic. I often find myself in a semi-meditative space when making collages; a welcome antidote to the daily stress of being in complete limbo, geographically. When I'm working on a collage, I'm in another realm, a place where the "monkey mind" is not so active. No wonder I'm so infatuated with it.

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This past week we explored the art of an early 20th Century artist, Frantisek Kupka. We used his art as a point of departure for our own work, concentrating on his use of abstraction, line, and color.

One of the pieces I created, which is less than the size of an index card, is a study in circles and arcs, using bright, rainbow-like colors:



It was largely influenced by this painting by Kupka:



And another Kupka-inspired collage...



loosely based on this work by him:




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Early in the term, our instructor found a cache of unfinished collages left behind by former students. I "finished" the one below by contributing the "WATER" card, the red and blue triangles, and the line of black thread.


This is another collage from early in the term. I especially like the string of beads, which I sewed on top of the gold Almond Roca wrappers in the lower right quadrant:



This piece, which turned out, unintentionally, to look much like a landscape, utilizes some interesting materials: masking tape, eucalyptus leaf and bark, sheet music, coffee-stained doilies, origami paper, commercial paper, and book pages:



This is one of my most recent collages, which includes tea bags (background), coffee filters, magazine images, dryer sheets, and commercial papers. It's one of my favorites: