Asakusa Kwanzeon, Tokyo Oct 1919

This collage is named for the postcard in the upper left of the collage. It mystifies me that this postcard is almost one hundred years old, but seems somehow fresh and alive to me. As if I was there not long ago. Like a memory.

This is one of my collages and an example of the process I use for developing a collage.
In this case, the initial idea came from the color combination of a few pieces of paper lying on my work table; a piece of tracing paper from another project and a strip of a cut up watercolor.  Neither of those pieces of paper found their way into their way into this completed collage, by the way - even the color trended away to something else.

Taking quick photographs as the composition is forming helps me see things that my naked eye does not perceive. It seems to flatten things out in a way that helps me see the composition.
After I finished this collage and was scrolling through the alternate compositions, it reminded me of the photographic process of clouds moving, or flowers blooming.

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