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April 16, 2008

piggie

Today I was unpacking some work on paper - part of the endless job of moving into the new studio - and found this collage from a few years ago. At the time I was painting those barber poles on everything. Don't know where they came from, but they hung around a year or so. Even now they make the occasional appearance. I was also working with dress patterns. I discovered a big pile of them in the Swap Shop at the Truro dump. That's where people contribute items otherwise bound for the trash pile that someone else might be able to use. The good stuff never even makes it into the building. There are regulars who hang around outside and pounce.

Anyway, notice the little piggie in the lower right corner? That summer I was using the printmaking shop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and someone noticed that I was incorporating bits of old dress patterns into my monoprints. I came in one morning and found an envelope full of a bunch of little animals and flowers from old applique patterns, including the piggie that I used as a template for that guy. The anonymous donor wrote that she hoped I would enjoy using them, which I certainly have.

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