I’m still struggling w/ acrylics. This is an effort to loosen up.
not a giraffe
If someone did this to a giraffe, it would be BAAAD!
Grids
The QR codes are grid, as are the crossword puzzles I do every day. A grid is a human imposition on nature. The white squares are mat board, one inch squares, glued to the painting. We will see where we go from here!
Acrylics, still
I’m starting to handle acrylics like I do oils. At first I tried to use a wet brush, and all I got were thin washes. I bought these canvases at Big Lots, thinking they were cheap, but one is a parallelagram, so no value.
acrylics
I’m practicing w/ acrylics. 
Collage show
The Art of Collage is 100
The term collage derives from the French “colle” meaning ” glue”. This term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art, according to Wikipedia.
Collage is an artistic composition made of various materials glued on a surface. The importance of collage was to push the limits of what could be called art. At that time if it wasn’t oil on canvas, or a sculpture of stone or bronze, it wasn’t art. Picasso and Braque were not content with the status quo. Collage yanked the stranglehold from the neck of “fine art”. Images and text from newspapers or magazines were layered in with paint to make comment of the news of the day.
Artist in Residence of Fines Creek, Susan Livengood, has combined cast- off computer parts, letters from scrapbooking, monofilament line, paint and other materials. The show exams what happens when humanity and nature intersect.
Celebrate the anniversary of collage with some glue and your imagination.
fitting in
I know what the giraffe represents. Someone who doesn’t fit in. So some
wise
guy decides to “fix it”.
Hybrids
I’ve been writing a narrative to apply for an arts fellowship. It is an excellent way to distill what it is I’m doing, and why they should support me. I have whittled it down from the pompous verbosity to one word, “Hybrid”. This only occurs when humanity is messing with nature. The series started with collages of flowers that were constructed of computer detritus, then painted to look like a flower, corn, or eye. They led to the “What if?” game. What if someone decides to genetically modify awkward animals so they would be easier to transport? I thought of a folding giraffe. Might try it some day. This one’s had her markings coopted by a QR code. Camouflage is meant to confuse. Markings are used to identify. What is really going on?
Hybrid
I’m thinking about the impact of humanity on nature. We mess with it thru bioengineering, selective breeding and technological enhancements. The results are…mixed. The giraffe has intruded on my mind. I’ve used a QR code to “improve” the animal. Today is day one.
September
Chicory, ironweed, 
gentian, and goldenrod.