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Book of Matan & Other Collages

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A ‘grab bag’ of a collages, starting with the first collage I have, from 1962 Mountain Scene. It perfectly embodies my understanding of collage before I encountered the collage works of Max Ernst. This is made up from lots of bits of images I took from magazines, tearing them up and reassembling them to look like other objects, in this case, a mountain terrain.

The cat collages were originally inspired as part of a book project my fiend the poet George MacBeth was doing.

The Book of Matan was a book of automatic writings that told a tale of awakening. The manuscript was left to Nik Douglas to publish. I found it profoundly moving and was inspired to do this set of collages to illustrate the book, (published 1979).

The next collages are some from the Mountain Ecstasy (1978) series that were not in the book.

The Path of the Mystic Lover—Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy (1993) was originally the be entitled

To Catch the Uncatable. It was to comprise illustrations in full color, for which I decided to make a series of collages, a few of which are shown here.

Visions of Ecstasy is a collage I created for the exhibition poster for my Show at Visionary Gallery, New York in 1982, featuring my Bird House in the center.

  • Mountain scene

    Collage 24 x 20 inches 1962

  • For Roland Penrose

    Photo collage 1973

  • Creepy Crawly

    photo collage 8 x 10inches 1970

  • Caterpillar

    photo collage 7 x 10 inches 1973-4

  • Kitty Corner

    Photo collage 7.125 x 9.5 inches 1973-4

  • Puss In Boots

    Photo collage 8.25 x 11.5 inches 1973-74

  • Restraint

    Photo Collage 8.125 x 10.625 inches 1973-74

  • The Web

    Photo Collage 8.25 x 11.5 inches 1973-74

  • Book of Matan Cover

    Photo collage for The Book of Matan 9.5 x 14 inches 1977

  • 10. Omens on the Path

    Photo collage for The Book of Matan 8.5 x 14 inches 1977

  • The Bird

    Photo collage for The Book of Matan 9.5 x 12.5 inches 1977

  • 12. Feeding

    Photo collage for The Book of Matan 9.5 x 13.75 inches 1977

  • Spirit of Senane

    Photo collage for The Book of Matan 8.5 x 14 inches 1977

  • Senane

    Photo collage inspired by The Book of Matan 24 x 20 inches 1977

  • Shakti Pat

    Photo collage related Mountain Ecstasy series 11.5 x 16.5 inches 1978

  • Tantric Reunions

    Photo collage related Mountain Ecstasy series 22 x 16 inches 1978

  • Birth

    Photo collage related Mountain Ecstasy series 21 x 30 inches 1978

  • To Catch the Uncatchable

    Photo collage related Mountain Ecstasy series 11 x 16 inches 1978

  • Visions of Ecstasy

    Photo Collage for Visionary Gallery exhibit, New York 23 x 33 inches 1982

  • The Guru Bauls

    Photo collage for Path of the Mystic Lover 18.5 x 20 inches 1992

  • The Ocean of Love Bauls

    Photo collage for Path of the Mystic Lover 18'5 x 8.5 inches 1992

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