douglas brent smith

The Tempest and the Toolmaker

The Tempest and the Toolmaker - collage by douglas brent smith -

Secrets

Secrets lead to disappointment.

-- doug smith

Think Again?

What we think we own is always more expensive than we think.

-- doug smith

Ties

We are bound to each other in ways that cannot be untied.

-- doug smith

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 - 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 -