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on April 23, 2013

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I Made 336 Collages in 2019 and This One is My Favorite.

90% of what I make is not good. Well, it’s ok, or just a repetition of what I’ve made before. It’s that one collage out of ten that I find interesting. It’s not a high percentage. That 90% ends up somewhere in the world, no idea if they like it or if they find anything interesting it. That’s the great thing about mailing most of your work away, you never see the failures again. I imagine someone opening one of my envelopes would say out loud, “Here’s another one of these pieces of shit.” I mean I get it; I’ve said that many times in the past when opening someone else’s work. I’d like to hear someone open an envelope and say, “Here’s one of the 90%.”

I’ve started to keep those one in ten collages after I realized I didn’t have much of my own work. The worst and the best all end up in someone else’s mailbox or lost floating around the world. Over this past year I’ve made and then scanned 336 collages, (I printed them all into a book) which means I’ve kept over twenty collages this year. …

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