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Collage 125. “Symbiotic.” Black and white prints of my photograph of a water-tower, four Mexican decorative heart buttons given to me by Heather in #Mazatlan peach colored mono-print, orange floral stamps, plastic butterfly sewn in with white thread, grommets, watercolor, pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 124. “Confirm to the machine.” Cyanotype of a water tower, my photograph of a Panamanian “Coclé, Embossed Disk,” from the @BrooklynMuseum surrounded by gold granulation and watercolored, images of a wall of Mona Lisa stickers from the street, pink monoprint, gold floral stamps, salmon beads sewn down. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 123. “Slap.” Black and white prints of my photograph of a water-tower, watercolor and colored pencil, grommets, gold granulations, two black and white photographs of my eye, mono-print of large bubble wrap, cyanotype of large bubble wrap, white thread, plastic magnifying sphere. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 121. “Fallback.” Black and white print of my photograph of Gowanus Houses water towers and a of Medieval stone architectural “rose,” from &Met. Green mono-print, floral stamps, sewn clear and grey buttons, two cyanotypes of a cut orange - one gated and tied down with thread and jewelry hardware, one rolled with gold paint, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 122. “Provides.” Black and white print of my photograph of water-towers, grey and yellow mono-print, pink watercolor, stolen image of the #SaintLouisArch in construction, three red tesserae, black seed granulation, floral grommet, plain grommets, cyanotype of netting, watercolor, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 120. “Banshee.” Cyanotype of water tower on red placard, two stolen images of Brooklyn Bridge being built. Green mono-print, white floral stamps, square mirror, my photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, gold grain encrusted grommets. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 119. “Intoxicate.” Cyanotype of water tower, black and white print of my photograph of a “Baule Fertility Figure” from @pacegallery African & Oceanic. Cyanotype mono-print of netting, grommets, three tiny toy spoons sewn down, grey/silver mono-print of large bubble wrap, white netting, salmon colored beads, various watercolor, pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 118 “Sonorous.” Black and white print of lintel at 520 W. 22nd Street with colored pencil, red mono-print with decorative floral stamps in gold, dash of watercolor, three silver baubles, sewn on touch of color printed blue sky. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 117. “Yellow.” Blue print of old fashioned wind chimes hand colored with blue pencil, torso of a First People Northwest Coast god from the newly reopened exhibition, at the Natural History Museum, six silver eyelets, four blue glass tiles, four cyanotypes of daisy petals. All topped by a print of a New York City water tower. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 116. “Truss.” Gold mono-print topped by a New York City water tower held with grommet, borrowed saint images x 11, bordered by red ribbon, golden stroke of paint, and held with ball topped pins. Over a blue mono-print is a color jet print photograph of last year’s Valentine tulip bouquet. Title is arbitrary.

College 115. “Safer.” Blue mono-print of a leaf from #Vieques, cyanotype of a local weed Prickly Lettuce, a found floral stamp in gold, color ink jet print of a stairway on the left side of the largest “Heaven” Mayan pyramid at Lamanai. I can still hear the howler monkeys screaming and that is symbolized by the salmon-colored beads, red threads, with red and white colored pencil. All topped by a New York City water tower.

Collage 114. “Eyeteeth.” Gold and blue mono-print of a leaf from Vieques, cyanotype photogram of two violets, my black and white print of a stairway of the @NationalGalleryofArt, Washington DC with Aristide Maillol’s “Torso of a Young Woman,” ca. 1930, pink beads, dry gold paint, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 113. “Nominate.” Cyanotype of barbed wire on 9th Street and color print of the - 1913 Beaux-Arts Gowanus Water Pumping Station Building facade on Butler Street, now removed. I watched them take it down piece by piece. Both my photographs. Mono-print, grommets , string, thread, gold-leaf, ink, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 112. “Grace.” Cyanotype of a water tower and shadows from trees at @Harriman State Park - my photographs. Mono-print, watch gears, bracelet cord, pink beads, eyelets, star grommet, ink, colored pencil, china white paint. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 111. “Confirm.” Cyanotype print of a water tower and my photo of Isamu Noguchi’d “Kouros,” color Xerox of a fern illustration - borrowed, cyanotype photogram of weed, red sewn down red beads, color Xerox of Peter Paul Rubens’ “Wolf and Fox Hunt,” detail, ink, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 110. “Guardrail.” Cyanotype print of a water tower, Mono, gell-print of wind chimes, actual wind chime, cyanotype of my photo of Edgar Degas’ “The Little Fourteen-Year-Dancer” shot on my first trip back to MET in late 2000 - verso, plastic button, 2 button and “O” letter grommets, blue, grey, white buttons sewn down and covered with dry3 white pigment, ink, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 109. “A Record of the Visible.” Cyanotype print of a water tower, photograms of a two daisies, a color Xerox print of a 1660 map of Manhattan I saw in an exhibition at the main NYP library., grommets, ink, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 108. “Personalized.” Two cyanotype prints of the same plastic “braille paving” pads from a street corner, under a scaffold, next to the #MetropolitanMuseumofArt . Yeah, I always thought they were for traction in bad weather or to make the corner incline more durable, but they are to aid blind folk. Who knew. Anyway…on a late fall afternoon the shadows of they bumps make a nice composition. I hand colored the prints with colored pencil and watercolor. At the top I included two mono-prints and punctuated them with silver pins. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 107. “EVERY DAY.” Black and white print of Adolph Alexander Weinman ’s “Night: A Clock Figure from [the now destroyed] Penn. Station.” I did my museum studies internship long ago at the Brooklyn Museum, where she is now located in the back garden, and fell in love with this sleepy figure. I hand colored the print with white and green pencil, included a snippet of a post card of the #EmpireStateBuilding, a length of collected caution tape, gold and white mono-print, a photogram cyanotype of beads, sewn in blue buttons, and pink paper. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 106, “Stop Trying to Understand.” Black and white print and a cyanotype of the marble hallways of the main floor of the #NewYorkPublicLibrary, green mono-type. Sewn down silver and red beads, metal tack, green rubber beads, colored pencil. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 105, “Detestation.” Metal pin, my photo of Gowanus construction printed in black and white and in cyanotype. Pressed wet collage with buttons sewn in. Black plastic spill sewn in with pinned ornament. Title arbitrary.

Collage 104, “Kino-scope.” Tiny jewelry hearts, #EadweardMuybridge pigeon photograph from MoMA, my photos of a cloudy sky over the #GeorgeWashingtonBridge, a pair of SoHo water towers, a Tribeca water tower, and subway seats on the F train, elevated. Colored pencil and watch parts.

Collage 103, “A rare bright spot.” Self portrait photographed in a foggy window, mono-print, cut hearts sewn, my photo of an Egyptian guardian from the @metmuseum more mono-print, tiles, and gold paint. Title is arbitrary.

Collage 102, “Triangle.” My photograph of sunset sky over New York Harbor, mono-print of a fern, my color photography of art deco-ornament on a, now torn down Gowanus building. With grommets, pencil, jewelry hardware, thread and gold paint. Title is arbitrary.

Post Covid collage. No. 101. The future is a gift.” A cyanotype feather, a mono print in yellow and blue, two grommets, my photograph of the Wonder Wheel just before summer sunset, a LED bulb, a roll of gold paint, sewn in rubber buttons, a requisite red bead, my street photograph of a young boy and his mother, a photo of a shell gathered at Rockaway. Title is arbitrary.

Post Covid Collage no. 100. “Human Grace.” After every class day for at least two decades I walk toward the subway in Harlem passing this niche with a lavish ornament - it is the place where the building places their trash. I printed it three times and watercolored the portrait section in three colors, added three buttons and faceted dots also in the same colors. In Brooklyn I found tucked in an empty lot a massive truck - tires flat and panels rusted - but still dignified. It has been there as long as I remember. I printed it on Chinese paper money and added some more gold leaf. The title is arbitrary.