Laura Series Making Marks 545B1 Metal Print

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A collage artist named Laura Lein-Svencner has her students do an exercise that consists of simply making marks on paper. So I did. Then I took a closer look. Then I bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated those marks in the computer to come up with an interesting, completely abstract, sort of primitive-looking series of images I call the "Laura Series." Thanks to her inspiration and my computer skills, I've come up with something completely different and, I hope, appealing.

I'm a photographer, writer, educator based on Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in photomontage work, combining photos I've taken of rust, walls, peeling paint, birds, postage stamps, trees, etc. into images that are completely new, different, and often weird. I also create physical collages, then find myself photographing parts of them to include in my photomontages. It's crazy, but it's fun! My career has encompassed writing guidebooks (primarily about where to photograph in California), newsletters (guides for photographers about where to photograph in the United States), leading photo workshops, and conducting online classes. I am at Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/visualeigh/ On Facebook here:...