douglas brent smith

  The Secret Drama Sings to Silent Applause -- collage by douglas brent smith, 30 December 1992. From Journal #28, An Expandable Family . This journal suffered so much water damage and mildew from the Elm Street fire that it may eventually need to be be thrown away. I've already torn several unreadable pages out, but the whole thing is a mess. I'm doing what I can to save the art work.

A secret changes as soon as it's discovered.  -- doug smith

  Browsing Past The Built-in Bias In The Public Library - collage by douglas brent smith

  Body Language - collage by douglas brent smith

  Big Number 2 - collage by douglas brent smith, 1992

  Body Language - collage by douglas brent smith

 "Big Fat TV" collage by douglas brent smith. when you are  in a hurry and still want to get  there in good spirit be sure to dance & smell the flowers & pack lightly because you've got so much more to pick up put away light up serenade grow and know you're individual flow. NOTES: This is one of a series of collages I made using a good old fashioned copy machine, combined with some cut-out doodles and random pictures -- these apparently featuring transportation (and dance!) I added the poem after posting the collage. Now they belong together! ~ dbSm ~

It might feel like our youth abandons us, but it's always available within us. Ask questions. Try new things. Meet new people and make new friends. That field of work is also a field of play. Stay young. -- doug smith

  A Walk In The Country - a collage by douglas brent smith, 1992. Walks in the country often produce surprises. You never know what you'll find.

  A New Perspective - collage by douglas brent smith, 11 November 1992 Notes: How do you feel about x-ray vision? I remember vividly (in 3D?) seeing for the first time the movie "X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes" starring Ray Milland. I enjoy that movie so much. Poor Ray, suffers so much for his gift, and craves much more than he can ever see. It's a classic story of the perils of experimenting on yourself. But, isn't that all any of us are doing? Experimenting with ourselves? We don't know how this turns out for certain. I have faith in certain destinies, but seriously who really knows? Improving one's vision along the way seems like a great advantage. I've been blessed with correctable eyes, and they have needed lots of correcting over the years. I do not take vision for granted and I do thank God for my vision every day. And, while I do need to use three kinds of eye drops every day, none of them give me X-Ray vision, and that's a good thing. Look at poo

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

Secrets lead to disappointment. -- doug smith

What we think we own is always more expensive than we think. -- doug smith 

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