small works on paper
For the past several years, I have collected my smaller collage works between the covers of books that I unbound. Below is an overview of these collections. If you're interested in purchasing a collector's book or an individual, small-scale analog collage, please visit the purchase/contact page for more information.
AMERICANS: AN ANTI-POEM BOOK
Americans: An Anti-Poem Book is my ambient re-telling of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. This collection contains 80 pages of analog collage work and hand-inscribed epigrams. I created Americans in late-2014.
shitfield
shitfield and over-sized shitfield (not pictured) contain hundreds of pages of analog collages and hand-inscribed epigrams. I created the first pieces in this collection during summer 2014; I made the final pieces in this collection in April 2015.
APESHIT INSCAPE
APESHIT INSCAPE documents my small-scale collage work from May 2015 through October 2015. 75 handmade collages comprise this collection. To my mind, this is the apotheosis of my small-scale endeavours.
FIRE
FIRE contains 50 analog collages that I created between November 2015 and February 2016. The pieces expirement with different stlyes of cuts and arrangements than previous collections.
MASONRY
MASONRY is the unedited first draft of my vispo manuscript papier / collé // lingua / franca. The manuscript consists of 70 handmade collages comprised entirely of text cut from LIFE and LOOK magazines from the late-60s and early-70s.
The Gift of Birds
The Gift of Birds contains approxiamtely 50 selected, small-scale collage works from February 2016 through January 2017. The collection includes work that I've created for the international group The Collage Club, as well as visual translations of Celan pombs I made the Denver Quarterly.