Thursday, September 20, 2007

Is This Obnoxious or What? (Yippeeee!)




I was so excited to come home from work (after about 300 miles) and log in to all my various spots to find I had won some awards from one of my ebay groups! CaaT - Complementary Art And Things held a collage sale contest starting Aug. 31. This announcement had been up almost all month, and as a lover of collage, I couldn't wait to list my entries. Unfortunately for all the sellers, collage did not do very well, but I was thrilled to win (can I say it?) ALL THREE prizes!! Wheee! They were: most entries (natch), highest sale and most unique bids. I entered prints of some of my collages pictured here on my slide show below as well as 3 different styles of my ZNE August Book Club beeswax collage "I Saw a Spirit." What actually sold, though, were collaged domino pendants, also pictured here.
I hope the slow sales don't indicate bad things for collage in general; but we shall see. I have enjoyed collage for as long as I can remember, including collaging one whole wall of my college dorm room. I also remember helping my brother collage the walls of his antique shop in the 1970s, and those were like 20' high walls and huge rooms. Ahhh, the 70s.


2 comments:

Loudlife said...

Yahooooooooooo! Congratulations sister! It's not obnoxious at all, it's fabulous! How great! It's so validating to me when things sell, and then to have won all those prizes, too? If I were you I'd be walking on air!

Laurie

Sea Dream Studio said...

Congrats, Gina! You rock!
I was collaging back in the 70's, too!
Please forgive me... I've tagged you..
http://dalemclain.blogspot.com/
hugs~dale