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wrapping paper and envelopes
swedish stamp, envelopes, a letter and a shopping list
an envelope, an old magazine and pattern from last year's calendar
A busy start to the year with work, so I'm a little behind with blog posts… I've been carrying on with making collages from paper rescued from each week's recycling box. It's turning into quite a mixed bag of a project so far...
Lots of envelopes at this time of year, so mainly patterned liners and postmarks
From an interior's catalogue and some offcuts of book pages from a papier mâché project
Paper culled from a free supermarket magazine
The ABC (Artists' Book Club) at UWE have a group project running this year to create books on the theme of 'found'. I've set myself a challenge to make at least one collage each week using only the paper I've salvaged from that week's recycling box. I'm not quite sure what form the book will take yet, but I'm enjoying playing around with collage and I'm surprised how different each one looks. My favourite thing about collage is the element of chance - I never know how the finished piece will work when I start working on it. Very liberating for a control freak...