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Reflections on Walden Pond,
watercolor collage, circa 1985, 29.5" X 41"
Story
While traveling in Massachusetts, I took a detour
to visit Walden Pond. It was a beautiful autumn afternoon and I was attracted
to the color of the leaves. I began picking up leaves as I walked. I brought
them back to Iowa and rendered them in a random pattern at actual size
on a sheet of watercolor paper. My daughter, Jenny, who was 10 at the
time, said "All you need now is the wind." After painting in a background
with random gradations of blue-gray, Jenny said "Now I see the wind."
When a painting for a collage is at this stage, I am sometimes temped
to leave it as is rather than cutting it up. (An example is The
Dozen Roses. My original concept was to do a fan shape, but decided
to leave the pieces much larger.) While I was tempted, I cut the painting
into strips and rearranged it on another background for the final composition,
Reflections on Walden Pond.
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