this is stage 2 of hot sunday, started a few days ago, as it looks at 11:50 AM.
1:35 PM: stage 3 is on the right. not there yet, but closer.
7/24/14: in stage 4, i found this one works better compositionally as a horizontal. and a little discovery i made is shown in the detail on the lower right: the pinkish strips of collaged paper on the upper edge are segments of the cover of a michelin map of the netherlands. the orange color was far too strong for the delicate balance of this collage, so i turned it orange-down, and what appeared was a very subtle pinkish color, echoed by other pinks in a map of aurora, a suburb of denver, colorado, found in the mid-right quadrant of the full collage (2nd row left).
as i went through that process, i thought with great fondness of one of my teachers/friends in manhattan before leaving for greece, the great collagist leo manso, referred to by robert motherwell as one of the contemporary masters of collage. i knew leo through his son peter manso, an author known for his biographies of mailer and brando, who was my room mate at antioch college, in yellow springs, ohio. he would have appreciated that choice i made in the moment, and how it brought back to me the great subtlety of his work.
7/25/14: back to a vertical. plus a few more slight but important adjustments. 3rd row down: latest version of the left, original version on the right.
