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Collage’s Steampunk Kingdom
The self-working machines called “automata” have been known for millennia. They were created in ancient Greece and China, and even through the Middle Ages, in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere. With the...
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Steampunk Kingdom of Collage Revisited
In the recent post “Collage’s Steampunk Kingdom,” Art of RetroCollage briefly introduced the subject of automata throughout history, and presented three collage tributes to them: imaginary “steampunk”...
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Collage’s Song of the Wharves
Nocturne of the Wharves (Cloud Poets Series) Arna Bontemps (2014). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. Nocturne of the Wharves All night they whine upon...
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Botanical Portrait in Collage
Seen in a corner of an old picture gallery… Botanical Portrait (2014). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. Who—or what—is the subject of this portrait? Some...
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Collage in Memoriam: a Tribute to Gerald M. Edelman
The strongest, bravest, kindest, most generous man I have ever known, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman, passed away on the 17th of May, 2014. Loving husband and father, caring mentor, wise teacher, superb...
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Collage’s Magic Mountain
“The world in a verse, A generation sealed, men remoter than mountains, Women invisible in music and motion and color”… — From “Arrival at the Waldorf,” by Wallace Stevens Our language has many old...
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Collage Currency of the Imagi Nation
“Mr. Browne, I’ve left my purse behind. I’ve not got a penny. I can’t pay for the ticket. Will you take my watch, please? I am in the most awful hole.” “Tickets on this line,” said the driver,...
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The Ensign of Collage
The ensign of collage varies; not with the day or season, but with every moment and place. The Ensign (2014). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. Approaching...
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Collage’s Little Saboteur
During ancient times, human evil was attributed to demonic possession or temptation. While law emphasized that an individual bore personal responsibility for his actions, superstition or religion held...
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House of Collage Dreams
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. —from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau Waking up from sound or...
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Collage’s Projection
The Projection of Evil (2014). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. (All artwork, descriptions, & other text created & copyright © by Eric Edelman....
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The Sensorium of Collage
“Sensorium” refers to the totality of all senses in an organism; the sum of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch—the perceptions that aid a living thing in forming a conception of its environment....
View ArticleThe Underwater Typewriter: Collage and Marc Zegans’s Tangible Poetry
Marc Zegans’s new collection of poems, The Underwater Typewriter, is poetry made tangible. One can feel it as well as see it, smell and taste it as well as hear it. Like a work by a master craftsman,...
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