This was done as an experiment in reproducing an existing work (which I never do). One of my regular customers wanted to buy a piece that had already been sold and asked me to reproduce it (the second piece shown here). I didn't like the idea and to reproduce it exactly would have been impossible; all my collage work is unique, made from one-of-a-kind pieces of hand-printed papers, but I thought it might be interesting to use the basic composition as a springboard for something new. It's different, but I liked it well enough to keep it (in the end, my customer bought another piece altogether). This collage draws on the same compositional "bones," so to speak, as the first one (from April 2018). I've even toyed with the idea of doing an entire series of collages based on a single, underlying composition. We'll see....
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