Secret Powers

Secret Powers

 Secret Powers - collage by douglas brent smith, 1979



Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts - sketch by douglas brent smith

Notes:

What do you see the first time you look at this?

What do you see if you think about it?

Does it change if you think about it more?

What do you think I was trying to draw?

Sometimes an artist draws something and does not even see it until later. It can change in time. It's not much of a drawing, really, and I have second thoughts about posting it. But, there it is.


Scratch

 

Scratch

Scratch - collage / mixed media by douglas brent smith, 1979


Notes:

Even when I created this I knew that the actual smell part of the scratch and sniff would not last forever. It might have, but I haven't had the heart to test it. What if by testing it I use up the smell? What if by testing it my negative assumptions are affirmed? So, maybe it smells, and maybe it doesn't. What do you think?

As simple as this is as a collage -- only one cutting pasted and a little drawing, I do still like it.



Mumm's The Word

 

Mumm's The Word

Mumm's The Word- collage by douglas brent smith

Where did he go wrong? 

Was it climbing that cliff? Was it taking that picture? Was it his involvement with that mysterious woman who worked for the government? Mumm's the word.




Moisture Absorbing Grip

 

Moisture Absorbing Grip

Moisture Absorbing Grip - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980-81

Notes:

This collage, part of the Collageland series, is an echo of Deconstructing Kit, and that's me getting deconstructed. Pull yourself together, Doug.

That's a tennis racket in a glass of water -- a situation I do not recommend unless you want to get stuff wet and maybe break a perfectly fine glass. Unless that glass is made of plexiglass.



Machine Work

 

Machine Work

Machine Work - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980-81


Note:

As a part-time security guard, I sometimes would read books to pass the time. One night my job required me to guard and observe a location from my car -- a black 1966 Volkswagen beetle. It was night, so I brought a kerosene lantern to read by. It was almost like camping out, as long as I kept watch on the construction site and reported anything out of the unusual. Nothing was out of the unusual. That has nothing to do with this collage, except for the one line on John Updike. Run, Rabbit, Run.


A Scream At The Door

A Scream At The Door

 A Scream At The Door - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1981.

From Journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980-1981.

Light From Afar

Light From Afar

Light From Afar - sketch by douglas brent smith, February 1981.

From Journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980-1981 (which, as evidenced in this drawing, has water damage through-out).


Stage Crew

Stage Crew

 

Stage Crew - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980

From journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980.

This appears to be a set design, possibly for The Great Brain Robbery, but I'm not certain since at the time I had been in rehearsal for and developing "en grade" at the Playwright's Center on Kinzie Street in Chicago. It did not get any farther than a staged reading, which was impacted by a massive snow storm so our audience was only four or five people. 

This could also be just a random drawing. It is smeared from water damage caused by the fire on Elm Street at Dorinda's rented home in Lewisville, CO in 2008. 

Dadamax In Collageland

 

Dadamax In Collageland

Dadamax In Collageland - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980

From Journal #15 eccentric nods, 1980


Covering History

 

Covering History

Covering History - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980

From Journal #15, eccentric nods

One Rather Large Spaceship

 

One Rather Large Spaceship

One Rather Large Spaceship - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980


One Rather Large Spaceship - x-ray mix

One Rather Large Spaceship - x-ray mix - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980

New Decade

 

New Decade

New Decade - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980

Lost Novelist in Collageland

Lost Novelist in Collageland

 Lost Novelist in Collageland - 1980 - collage by douglas brent smith


Notes:

This is part of a series of collages that were assembled on consecutive pages in Journal #15, eccentric nods, 1979 - 1980. While I do sometimes use "found" text in my collages, the text here is original, if incoherent.

I knew that the transparent tape would yellow with age and I was looking forward to it. There it is, aging as planned.




No One Expected Moses

  No One Expected Moses -- collage by douglas brent smith 4 August 1983