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Of all the girls in outer space
This one here is quite the case.
She's a little bit sugar and a lot of spice
Her boyfriend thinks she's pretty nice.
A mismatched pair is what they are
She lives in a mansion; he in a jar.
But she loves her little pocket man
all the way from Kazakhstan.
He loves her too, all 50 feet
He always loves things spicy-sweet.
Collage: Paper on Paper.
My work is usually spontaneous, and while my collages may seem simple, I tend to labor over each one for hours. ADD makes it very hard for me to organize, so finding just the right combination of colors and shapes is a challenge. Every piece I assemble is both a labor of love, and an obstacle to cross.
I am a lover of the unknown; of science fiction, and the idea that there might be others out there besides us. I tend to add satire and humor to my work, and I like to place things where they don't belong. I get enough realism in real life so I unwind by creating little escape hatches that are fantastical and dreamlike. I don't usually have a preconceived idea behind these collages; they are like jigsaw puzzles that I create blindly. The story does not unfold until the work is finished and the story is different for everyone.
This is an original one-of-a-kind analog (hand cut and pasted) analog collage / montage made from paper ephemera (60+ pieces). About 14 x 9-3/4" unframed. Fun, surreal art to wrap your head around, by Shawn Marie Hardy, aka Collage-a-Dada
Keywords: planets, stars, surrealism, universe, woman, outer space, scifi, cosmic, flowers, gems, jewels, love
Subjects: Love
Styles: Surrealism, Dada, Illustration
Mediums: Paper