Barge

#262
Source material: Idaho cloudscape, dicycle, postscript print error, honey locust bean pods
This week I pulled out my Robert Rauschenberg book and revisited some seriously influential paintings; most notably "Barge," which reminded me that very little of the work I've done in this series has been strictly black and white. Before Photoshop, I had an elaborate system of black images on mylar that I would overlay to get compositional ideas, and once I was collaging electronically, the complexity of color possibilities superseded those earlier experiments in B&W. This piece could very much have been my first electronic collage, since most of these elements were in my repertory pre-computer days.