Collages

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By overlapping two images I made some new pictures - mainly of the mandorla (overlapping circles) pictures. They get complex and messy at times and hard on the eyes perhaps.

From a bundle of old music

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I was given a bundle of very old piano music and though I was able to sort and keep a quarter of it, most will have to go to the recycling. However I saved a few pages with odd old-fashioned printing etc. to put into a collage, then I messed about with variations from it.

North sculptures in Geelong

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A group of pointed sculptures on the Geelong Waterfront look like sails or sharks but they are called 'North' I guess because they point towards the north. I've photographed them, as have thousands of tourists, and sketched them. Here are three collages created from just one small sketch. I'm a bit bored at the moment with Peceli away, and haven't got wheels to go to some of the meetings such as Diversitat, so am becoming lazy, watching too much TV, though todayI have cooked, washed, sorted five boxes of clothes to give away, and bagged old linen for the tip and at last I have thrown out my old life drawings from years ago!

Keeping it simple

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I only wanted to use one word - the word that a troubled man chalked on the pavements of Sydney over decades in a beautiful script. Eternity. So I just put a couple or more pictures together to see what would happen. On the Babasiga blog I've been thinking about the Serenity prayer in the last posting and on second thoughts I have decided that you can't be comfortable with ignoring things like injustice and be placid about today's challenges as well as the regrets of the past that still haunt. About the future, well, there are nagging anxieties there too I guess! Also I've been thinking about songs like Thank you for the music and Yesterday. When Peceli is away I listen to the radio a lot more - nostalgic pop songs - a radio station called Magic that plays songs of the 60s, 70s 80s. I know most of the songs it seems.