phrom phrazes (serial collage... as opposed to cereal collage)

when roles are reversed opinions are too           I'll just nod. I've never been so good at shaking hands

 So here is the group of collages I've been working on. I'm calling it "Phrom Phrazes," the explanation for it being pretty simple. All the titles (under each image) are cut up lyrics from the album "Phrazes for the Young" by Julian Casablancas. I've been going through a phase (phaze?) of listening to a lot of the album and certain lyrics just have kept running through my head. Here's what's come out of it. More to come, methinks. Cheers.

once this whole world was all countryside.               but I am only a drop from the storm.

 anything to watch while we are waiting for this apocalypse?       where did you go? you were my ride home

  

we're going nowhere and we're going there fast.               I am at your feet where critters meet.

don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do                  I understand that's how it goes.

            nothing stands still                                 I live on the frozen surface of a fireball.

feels like I'm going left and right in the dark.                   soon I will simply evaporate.

  UPDATE: ...twenty-four and done? See below.

 complicated mammals on the wings of robots           together we'll sing songs and tell exaggerated stories

those who helped me along the way

I smacked them as I thanked them                                     forgive them even if they are not sorry

      but there are some things

     they do not want the answers to                            we're in a race against time and time might be winning

and the ones who deserve it they'll never understand it           and you're watching the time run

soon the whole world will be urban sprawl        it's not gonna take all day long watching the urban decay all around us, oh boy     

UPDATE:  So, here are those last two collages I'd made for my series 'Phrom Phrazes.' The scanner has finally been sorted out.

This brings the count to twenty-six.

 

     you are looking for you own voice but in others
     while it hears you trapped in another dimension                                  that war is over

(all on 8.5x11" printer paper)

A forgotten work

Here is a piece that I'd vaguely forgotten I'd completed back in either Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 for a color theory class I was taking. Acrylic on matteboard (based on a magazine collage), approx. 14x17" And in case you couldn't figure out what the heck it's supposed to be, I'll tell you that there's a profile of a woman-lady in it - as was part of the assignment.

utopic escapism: A Journey (Eden Series)

 The third and second collages, respectively, of comparable content as the previously posted, which I've changed (barely) as seen below. I'm trying to sit down when I have any length of time and pound out some collage; it's fun. Cheers. x

Above (There's a Bubble in the Sky): 14x17"

Below (Bridge to Nowhere in Particular): 11x14

Farthest Below (It's Quite a Climb to the Blue City): 14x17"

UPDATE: Utopic Escapism turned Journey

 
Minor changes on a couple - here and in Red Umbrella - but I've got three new collages below.

After having made three figures relatively prominent in the first couple pieces, I decided to take it and run with it... The series has become one of their journeys - alone, together, and often alone together. It is a documention of this quest of theirs for escape, tranquility, and happiness. Not all of them have the same path, nor the same level of success. At least that's the case in my mind. :) 

Until next time. Cheers. x

 New collages start here. Now.

 "We Don't Know Where We Are, But I'm Definitely Thirsty" 14x17"

"Cave of Wonder" 11x14" 

 

"Are We Drowning Yet? OR An Island in the Sea" 11x16"

 This, if you're keeping count, is the fifth piece thus far. Smaller dimensions and the first "portrait" orientation. I don't think it is the last, however. Something tells me that as a whole, the series will work better with at least a round dozen. Maybe baker-style. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: The next step.

 The seventh unit in the current utopic-escapist-eden series. 11x14"

"Not an Island, Just a Canyon"

(click photos for enlargements)

 UPDATE: Sept. 6, 2012
Here are a few new pieces I've completed the last two days. Between work, illness, allergies, humidity, work, and a little artistic block, I've not been producing for some time. I'm up to eleven pieces as of right now. The order of the series is evolving as new pieces are created, so I'll update all that when all's said and done. Hope you enjoy!

14x17"

approx. 13x16"

 

11x14"

 "Are We Where Yet? AND I Don't Think So" 17x28"

The Biggest One Yet. Though I have been aiming to keep this Smaller-ish, since they will be many in number. :) And I'm always open to constructive criticisms, if you think of any, I swear. Cheers. x