Exactly, More or Less

 

Exactly, More or Less

Exactly, More or Less - collage by douglas brent smith, 30 November 1991


she looked at me

as if i knew what i was doing

but she knew that i didn't

and was not having 

any of it

making it all sideways

slipped and slipping

so i did my best

to get her attention

only achieving

disapproval.


Lamp, 1992

 

Lamp, sketch by douglas brent smith, mixed media, 1992


This is a drawing of an actual lamp. I don't remember where the lamp lived -- maybe in our house on 39th Place -- that seems logical. It appears in journal #27 Repercussions.

Downstream Corporation

 

Downstream Corporation

Downstream Corporation - collage by douglas brent smith, 30 August 1991.

The board of directors is not in the mood for slacking. The stream must keep flowing and the product must roll. There is money to be made, but wait! That pause for fun has already begun.

For most of my life, collages all came together in one day. They could take hours, but I would seldom stop working on one until it was done. Usually the radio would be playing endlessly in the background -- WMMR when I lived in NJ or PA, WXRT when I lived in Chicago. For this collage, it was WXRT all the way.

- dbS - 

You Can Be...

 

You Can Be...

You Can Be... - sketch by douglas brent smith

Where do you stand? What do you demand? 

Who do you declare yourself to be? 

Better than previous results...

Follow your intuition when you want more of what you've already got. Get more creative when you want something else.

-- doug smith