The Wildness Within

Dangerous Curves Ahead

January 12, 2009 on 1:24 pm | In Collage | No Comments

Here’s a new collage – I have been making collages since the 70′s when I worked as chief graphic designer at the Walker Art Center. Working as a designer at the Walker I had a few collages on the design department wall going all the time. Collage is such a fast fine art activity, I could ad to each collage with leftover images from my designs work for the museum.

Heres some collages that express my WILDNESS themes:

1. The curvey line in Nature – Snake, lightning, flow of water ( like a river ), the heart beat.

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Dangerous Curves Ahead  – Mixed Media Collage – 24″ x 40″- JimJ09

Lightning Strike – Mixed Media Collage – 28″ x 40″ – Jim J01

2. The Circle in Nature – The Water Born Planet, The Mandala

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Water Born – Mixed Media Collage – 42″ x 46″ – Jim J01

A Clear Bead at the Center - Mixed Media Collage – 30″ x 30″ – Jim J02

2. The Mandela -

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This one was done in the 1970′s before I started dating them and signed them JimJ – inspired by mandalas

The Photo of Hubert Humphrey was an extra print from a Press Photography Exhibit we had at the Walker.

Notice the Statue of Liberty as a tear in his eye.

Thanks Hubert – Mixed Media Collage – 20″ x 20″ – Jim 1970′s



This one was done as a memorial to John Lenon after he was killed in 1981. It has symbolic references to the violence of his death ( The sharks) – The four Beatles – The time of his death, New Years – Beatles music albums.

Thanks John – Mixed Media Collage – 30″ x 40″ – Jim J 1981