Most of my collage materials are stored in boxes until I move them to the new space. In the meantime, the materials I have access to are ones I rarely work with since I mainly cut and paste. I also don’t work in color too often so I am surprised that I am making things that are exploding with it. I have not put any thought into this work. I just put down colors, stamps and whatever other materials I stick down as I listen to books on tape or music. I don’t find them to be finished works, but the raw beginnings of something new for me.
I think leaving social media has strengthened my experimental thinking. Essentially not caring what I post or how much I post (too much or too little). I’m just making whatever feels right/good to me and allowing those channels in my brain to be open to anything and everything. Many times I’d look at art on IG and wonder what I was doing wrong because the algorithm showed me things that were nothing like my work and had very successful views/likes/followers. I’m old enough to know better than to let things like that make me question my own practice, but whatever hoodoo voodoo those folks do over there seems to work. Obviously everyone gets something different from it and there are many positive aspects to it, but for me, I am free of it and I definitely feel better and more productive.
