After seeing some painted wood collages with large fields of color, I decided I'd try to make an abstract landscape with large areas of colored paper. I really liked a photo I'd taken in Montana of a grassy hill with a tree at the top, so I made a collage evoking that... and decided I didn't like it! I thought the block printed tree (cut from the same book the text came out of) would tie the piece together, but the tree was levitating and looked silly. So, a day later I collaged over it with large areas of color making it totally abstract. Rob and I lived with it for a day and decided it needed a few more linear elements. You can see the evolution of the piece from bottom up to the top photo. I'm going to call it "Surveillance #1" and plan to do a series of aerial view abstract landscapes to see what is revealed ....
