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Feeling's mutual. Thanks, man.

C

Kind thanks to a kindred spirit!

Thanks so much, Donna. Welcome to IPA...! I've not been as active recently as I've been in the past due to time constraints at work. Slowing catching up with some of the new artists arriving daily at IPA and glad I had a chance to see your work today. Nice stuff...thanks for raising the bar here (pretty high to begin with...)!!

Such a tardy reply to your kind words! So sorry but also pleased you like this enough to comment! Thank you.

Thanks for the have, Michael. This was the first of a collage series I started but never finished. The app technology has advanced lightyears from this early piece so I may have to begin again...

Thank you so much. Your comment gave me pause to take a spin through your gallery. Welcome to IPA! I love the surreal whimsey in your work, but especially like the tender treatments with your children. You shoot them as the treasures that they are.

:-))

Question...in the opinion of one who teaches collage, where do you draw the line on what is consider collage? This piece is obviously a collage, but some of my more recent work, though assembled from a variety of parts and pieces of other images, uses the iPhone's ability to blend color and image. Are those properly considered collage as well? Or is that simply graphic photography...?

I'm blessed by your comments, Karen, and especially so from someone who teaches collage. My first art experience was with old magazines, a scissors, and glue. The iPhone may replace the techniques but not the joys of sticky fingers and smelly glue pots! I've just found in a closet my first hand-done collage (I was 12)...am thinking of doing a diptych with the original + an iPhone collage. Your comments are a great encouragement to me! Thank you.

Thank you Thank you!! Hasan, I greatly appreciate you, my friend. A double vote - Wow! Thought about a sequel using pigeons in Paris but, alas, it's already been done so well...!

Thank you, Sue. Appreciate the fave!

I appreciate your nice compliment!

There remains a little child in all of us no matter how old we become...Thanks for commenting on this...I love exploring the unrestrained imaginations of childhood.

Thank you, V...so sorry to have missed your note (now) 17 days ago. Cut my teeth doing collage with glue and old magazines. The iPhone has given me a re-connect with my roots.

Finally discovered the short lists, and noticed your incredible selfie made the cut...pulling for you!!

Wasn't aware of that...had my nose buried in projects. Thanks for the heads up!