This is not a collage, per se, and scissors were not used in its creation. This is a frottage. I did it in Denver about 1992. I did a whole bunch of frottages in Denver in the early '90s. I was wandering around, an unmedicated Manic Depressive, talking to myself, making rubbings (with Caron Dache watercolor crayons on 60lb. drawing paper) of anything that was relatively flat and had raised or incised shapes, patterns, or texture. I had to walk from place to place to assemble a composition. The "rain bird" was a rubbing of the top of a lawn sprinkler. The triangle eyes came from a Ten Commandments monument in the Civic Center park hard by the corner of Colfax and Broadway. I wonder if those 10cs are still there. I post it in remembrance of rain; the rain we're not having here in Oklahoma. I remember rain...little drops of water falling from clouds in the sky, right? Makes the earth smell good. Yes, that's it. There's poetry in it, too.
