Daily Archives: May 25, 2015

May have already finished Collage 09 — uncertain. This would be part 2 of a projected tetraptych involving a Stonethwaite panorama photograph found on Wikimedia Commons. Will parts 3 and 4 be created this coming week? And is this the basic end of the new series if so — not even extending into June? I have a feeling this may be a 20 parter instead, like the old Oblong series. Or the Greenup series that started it all over 10 years ago.

Virtually speaking I’m still in Minoa’s Collagesity but thinking about giving it all up next month. At the least I’m thinking about demolishing the Toxic Art and Power Tower containing my older digital efforts now. Can’t say I’m ready to give up the Falmouth Gallery just yet. I have a small side gallery established in a Mysten rental now… fairly interesting location. An Art 10×10 mirror site is located in another spot on the Sansara continent.

Mainland is extremely depopulated now in comparison to 2008, when I first signed on. Can it continue on like this for years to come? I’m uncertain. Yet I still find an attraction to mainland living, it seems.

I’m attempting to decide if all the collages in the Red Umbrella, created in the last year, are part of one series or remain separate from each other. The newest one still doesn’t even have a name. It contains references to other collages in the building, however. The end of the massive Falmouth collection is only a little past a year ago. I seem to remain in its shadow.

I am trying to balance pure collage creation with interpretations of same. For the new series I’ve decided to create an interpretation as I create the collages one by one. This is in contrast to the Sam Parr series also in the same building, where I basically waited until the end to create an overall interpretation. For the Embarras series that lies on the floor below the current one, I only did a full interpretation of the *last* collage. Should I even go back and create an overall interpretation of that one? I’m not sure.

While I was inside the Falmouth collage generating process, I believe I still possessed the illusion that we could stay in Blue Mountain in our retirement years. I don’t harbor this any longer. Middletown will most likely be our main retirement base instead. Correspondingly, the middle series of the Red Umbrella Gallery — the series before the current one — is all about Middletown and the attempt to escape the psychic gravity of Blue Mountain. The current series represents a compromise. Yes, we will have to stay in Blue Mountain for a number of years still, perhaps even up to 8, 9, 10. Yes, it is still a beautiful place where we live. I believe the discovery of Whitehead Crossing’s Red Head location this spring opened up a new door of appreciation. I must take all that I can from Blue Mountain before a physical departure.