A few winter collages with flowers

Dried rose petals and some fine paper from an old magazine

In these long winter days free from employment obligations, I've been playing with incorporating text into collage. When I found a four-page paper advertisement in a 1996 Wired, printed on beautiful stock, focused on flowers and bright colors, I remembered the dried rose petals I had collected from the bush in front of our house, and incorporated those as well.

This diptych uses the negative space from the cut out roses from one part of the ad. It's a little busy with the text, but I still like it.

Diptych collage with flower petals, paper flowers, the negative space from the cutting out of the paper flowers, and text

And this one, a little simpler... I mixed some broken rose petals into my adhesive, and then wound up spreading it around wantonly. I don't hate the effect. And the text, partly from an article on MUDs, I think is fun.

Collage with flower petals, paper flowers and text