Collage Layout Decided Upon

My collage from last Saturday was "resting" all week. I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to do with the images I pulled. I liked the round box, but the images seemed lost sitting inside it.

Today I went to a Treasure Mapping event. Treasure Mapping is a day to think about where you are going for the year and create a collage to guide you to that place. This group always does the most amazing artistic collages.

I was pulling out my images and looking through them, and putting them onto 7x7 pieces of paper. The lovely woman across from me asked if I was making a quilt. I got the direction I needed from her to finish my piece. I ended up with 25 squares, for a lovely 5 by 5 paper quilt.



I put each image onto a sheet of the paper, then augmented with watercolor. This was really fun and it enhanced the images. I think to finish this off I will write some lightly colored text onto each image. This may be how the image lands for me, or poetry. I'm not quite sure on that element yet.



After I got the collage squared away, I moved on to encaustics and created this 12x12" piece titled "Do you really think people who look like me play the flute?"