This is the last page and the end paper/back cover to
the 2013 American Express Date Book, which I repurposed as “The Daily Dick”
sketchbook. Goodbye 2013! I’ll miss you.
It is with bittersweet gladness that I post the
next-to-the-last blog for “The Daily Dick”. Basically, these are the last 2
pages in the 2013 American Express Appointment Book. Both pages in this folio
double page spread are covered by black paper glued atop them, then cut into
again in the shapes of hips and legs/penis, showing the page/end paper beneath.
“Let your penises do the walking through the yellow
pages”. I was working with cut paper collage again, using expensive scraps of
paper purchased in variety packs from Swain’s Art Supplies in Glendale,
California, USA.
This is the final double page spread in this series.
Herein we fully see the supplicating torn-paper face glimpsed obliquely in
yesterday’s blog posting. We also see, more clearly, the torn paper crotch
profile from yesterday’s blog and the man’s hips from the blog before that.
There’s something vaguely profound about it.
For today, and the next few
days, I’ll be working in cut paper. I started with the simple shape of the
penis/testicle combination. I cut out several copies of the same shape all at
one time, then glued them down on various pages in varies way, using the leftover
sheets as stencils, gluing THEM down as well.
In
today’s image, I let myself be inspired by the close-up photograph of the coral
reefs in the US Virgin Islands. Combining the penis/testicle shapes in this
manner reminded me of a hydra, which seems like the kind of thing one might
come across in a coral reef. Also, the “flowers” emerging from the coral
reminded me vaguely of the male and female symbols. It seemed appropriate to
draw white lines between the two circular “eyehole” shapes with Prismacolors.
