color & being

November 22, 2017November 21, 2017 meganart, art as existentialism, Awareness, blacksburg, collage, Color, Consciousness, cutandpaste, definitions, design, existence, Existential, language, life, Light, Light blue, meaning, scroll, Scrollable, scrolling, scrolling story, virginia tech, wordsLeave a comment

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miscommunication

November 21, 2017 meganabstractrelationsvi, analog collage, art, blogging, Blue, collage, collaging, Colors, conversation, cutandpaste, definitions, digital collage, english, language, Language barrier, Miscommunication, Rude, scroll, scrolling, scrolling story, wordsLeave a comment

miscommunication part 1

OBSESSION

November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 meganabstract relations vi, analog collage, blogging, Can't stop thinking, collage, collaging, cutandpaste, journal, Let it go, life, Like an itch, Like some kind of madness, making, Obsessed, Obsession, obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive personality, OCD, Simile, TypographyLeave a comment

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n!ghtmare

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 meganabstract relations vi, analog collage, anxiety, art, book, children's book, collage, collaging, cutandpaste, Dark, Darkness, dinosaur, fear, guns, Nightmare, pain, Painting, rape, Running, terrified, terror, Torture3 Comments

A project that I have been working on here and there for a while. (one spread is still in the works and not shown here.) A repurposed children’s bedtime book that I got from a thrift store. No longer for children.

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It was just an adjective.

November 10, 2017September 15, 2022 meganbeing, blogging, blogs, english, language, meaning, overanalyze, overthinking, poem, poetry, rambling, sounds, words, writingLeave a comment

Simple sounds
muffled amongst the layers of meaning
that wrap overlap and veil
Meant to convey
they confuse refusing to be as simple as they seem
Because we’ve imbued them all
Convoluted them all
And if they’re not in a dictionary yet, just you wait
And the words on the screen broken down
are just pixels perceived by your eyes
Any meaning perceived
all lies behind
where the lines are converted to sounds
wrapped around and around with meaning
A mean thing
created by the creatures determined to drown out the actual sounds and
Perhaps the magic of music is found
in the substance of sound without meaning,
sound just being

If I could only just be.

And feel

(The wind of the word
a i r
and the Teeth
(Are you feeling your Tongue Touch the Tip of your Teeth
and your breath breath breath)
the swish and the swash of the grass and
the buzz of the bugs
and the squish and the squash of the marsh
and the gal-lop gal-lop gal-lop)

When did sounds become words
and words become meaning
and meaning become so abstract
that I can’t even grasp what it is to mean.

the (edited) world we live in

November 5, 2017November 5, 2017 meganabstract relations vi, analog collage, Anger, art, art therapy, artist, books, childhood, collage, cutandpaste, Emotions, Stressed out, technology, The floor is lava, The world we live in, Twenty one pilots2 Comments

the world we live in A while ago I bought this book from a thrift store for two dollars. It looked promising, but I had no idea how much fun I would end up having with it! It has served as a place to get out emotions, to play around with song lyrics stuck in my head*, to make a mess, to be punny… Still so many pages to go (and so many dinosaurs!) but these are some of the ones I have collaged so far. Enjoy and let me know your thoughts!