OK I am going to try this again....
I wrote a nice lengthy letter yesterday and just as I was finnishing up
work of more that an hour the damn electricity went out and I lost the
letter. ¡ni modo! (oh well!)

anyway...
Greetings my fellow collagists!
Catching up on mail I see that a new exchange is afoot and I am glad that
dale has taken the initiative and that this is a digital exchange. After
watching some of our digital collage companions I decided to figure out how
to incorporate digitality into my working process the last few weeks and
have been enjoying the results.
Several things I have been doing...
Firstly, since I have been experimenting with some, what you might call,
visual poetry composed of fragments of letters which are then arranged in a
semi random arrangement so that the parts of the letters form new
relationships visually, I decided that I could take some of this lettering,
especially hard to come by stuff or lettering too small to use and scan it
and enlarge it if needed. Then taking these scans, chopping up the lettering
and rearranging it right in the image editing program I use - paint shop
pro. Then what I am doing is using the final digital collage effort as a
study to then scale up and make a painting from it. This has work with good
success.

a second aspect to the above idea it to then do things to the image like
´sharpen´ the image and sharpen it again and again until it distorts into
something interesting. Another aspect is to pick a section withing the
original digital collage and enlarge that as a new permutation of the image.

Another idea I have been working on is to take some item that I do not want
to chop up to use in a collage - in this case a drawing made by my daughter
noor-un-nisa - and scanning it. Then printing the scanned image onto
whatever paper I want which, in the example I am refering to, I printed on
to some 50 year old writing paper to give the drawing a feeling of being
old. I have a 600 epson stylus so the image was not as crisp as I wanted so
I drew over some of the image to make it a little more ´real´ you might say.

An other thing I have been experimenting with is using the scanner as a kind
of camera with the bed being a place to compose small drawings or other
fairly flat items into digital assemblages of related matter, in this case
doodles. Then I intend to take these sheets of doodles and add some pages of
poems or some other written matter and make short custom made books with
them.
So, that´s the latest ideas I have been playing with to fuse digital and
concrete collage making together into a single expression. I would love to
hear any other combination ideas that anyone have deen working on.

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all right! the lights didn´t go out!
Cecil

nationalcollage@... escribió:

> From: nationalcollage@...
>
> How many printouts of a digital collage are considered Limited?
>
> > The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
> http://www.ipdg.org/museum/collage
> is sponsored by the International Post-Dogmatist Group
> http://www.ipdg.org/