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Published: 2013-07-08 23:13:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 734; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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Paper collage and oil crayon on playing card, 2.5 x 3.5 inches.Kindly featured by ~Izaaaaa di_features: total balls
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Whoa! It's hard to get the balance right in a minimalist thing. This gets it exactly right.
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Thanks so much 
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Always nice to find the sweet spot, right?
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Yup - it's the place I sometimes get anxious I won't find again. I know I can always glue some stuff down and have it look okay, but the sweet spot is something else. It does seem to keep arriving though.
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on what sort of keyboard is this a "D" ? just curious, of course
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collage keyboard - very low tech but effective
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... i should have known
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- i had to go with the obvious answer
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I love all images covered or at least partially so.
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I guess in McLuhanesque terms it's a cool image, drawing the viewer in - I hadn't thought of that until just now.
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Hey, Thanks for looking that up. I think it's a pretty neat poem. I got really interesting images.
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You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it. There is some strong stuff in those old poems.
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like a floorplan or map for a library , those colorful dots , they are like markings used as a guideline to different sections in a library and thereΒ΄s a shhh... effect ,quiecy , in this 
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thanks, Markus. the hiding technique is one I like a lot - sometimes it's exactly what a piece requires.
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...and it would have been perfect for my summer journal!!
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heh - you're right, it would have gone well - think of it as a retroactive collaboration with your journal
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just a ray of him is present, and 3 dots to imagine the rest.
it's great when you do it minimal, Richard
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thanks very much, Hanan! it's a style i keep coming back to - and this one was funny, there are several layers covered up - the thicker it got, the more minimal the surface became
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that makes sense, in a way
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i'm glad you say that, i wasn't quite sure
sort of working through excess to the essential... but without a plan, just doing it.
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yup. having something to work on that doesn't have to be planned or get to any particular place is such a pleasure. you know - you may only get that for an area the size of a playing card - but it's still good
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exactly - "grunge" was one of the keywords i gave it - thanks!
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i have just replied to one of your comments about titles 
i love those colored spots and the spying eye! and the top cantos... 
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and i almost titled this with a date then changed my mind
thanks 
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you did, it had the date as title for a minute, then i changed it
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i had a collagist friend here, Emily ~DroopingSanityFences (not active here now, a facebook friend instead) who would post things and then take them apart and put them together differently after i had faved them and commented - i'd be like "what just happened?"
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