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Martin Hughes's avatar

Thanks for including my collage of collage (sorry I'm late to the comment party!). It's excellent to see everyone's work and all the inspiration at play. Peeps be brill!

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Duane Toops's avatar

No worries! The internet is forever, lol.

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Andrea Dixon's avatar

This keeps popping up and I just want to say that the first collage is perhaps, to date, my all time fav collage of yours. I really really really love it.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate. I was so hesitant to share this small series collages. It’s so starkly different than a lot of my other work. I was recently given a OLD black and white copy machine, and I’ve been making it my mission to figure out ways to use it creatively, lol. These are my attempts to.

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Andrea Dixon's avatar

I seriously love those so much. SO. MUCH. :)

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Duane Toops's avatar

Means a lot to me!

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Emily Marbach's avatar

Lovely work!

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Emily Foucart's avatar

Love this new series, the sobriety of colors

you always surprise me Duane!

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you! I really appreciate the way these particular source materials forced my work to be more minimalistic. It’s been interesting to explore and I’m looking forward to experimenting more. Thanks again!

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Andrea Dixon's avatar

Duane- as always, these are incredible.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Too kind! You’re awesome!

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Rikki Horvatic's avatar

I have to thank you and the collage pack for allowing me to fall in love with the color red again. I think I’d been avoiding it a bit

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Duane Toops's avatar

My pleasure! It’s funny how that happens, isn’t it? The way randomly develop aversions to certain things, and then one day stumble into how wonderful it cane be.

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Kim Nelson's avatar

The Vague Disquiet of the Spectators is spectacular, Duane!

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks Kim! I think that one tapped into something interesting, and I’ve been struggling to put my finger on it and find it again.

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Neil Barker's avatar

This is such a great point, Duane: "The uncertainty isn't a malfunction. It isn't a deficit to be filled. It's the point of the whole endeavor. It's the catalyst to all making."

I sense this as I put together a post with a poem, several photos, and a brief description. I have no idea what will be the end result. But like you mention, that's the point. To borrow an old cliche: it's the journey, not the destination. That fourth collage of the striking remix made by allgōðr is very nice.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Yes! That’s it exactly! The thing that keeps me coming back to my work bench everyday is that I have no way of knowing what I might find there.

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Patris's avatar

just brilliant

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thanks so much!!

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allgōðr's avatar

tysm, that is more than i could ever expect ♥︎ ♥︎ ♥︎

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Duane Toops's avatar

My pleasure!

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