collagedecollage

This is the first of the layered decollages I ever did, in 1998. I had this thick piece of corrugated cardboard packing material, and I felt like I could make it into something, so I cut away a rectangular cavity and then laid in images, mostly old photographs and magazine pages. After I built it all up and weighted it down and let the glue dry, I started cutting away at it. The middle goes really deep, all the way through the back. I always really liked this one, and ever since, I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to replicate it. Somehow, I can't come up with anything with quite the same quality, but I keep trying. In the meantime, I've developed some other, similar, but different, styles of decollage… and collage.