At the very end of May I started to do a very loose collage a day challenge for myself. I needed to just get myself creating without pressure of it being a piece for a show. Loose also because I knew I’d take the weekends off and also if it didn’t get done, who cares. I’ve done enough of these 100 day challenges that I know I can do it, not going to beat myself up about it. To make it even looser, I haven’t even been posting them everyday. Most of them have made it up on my grid, but some have not. I also have been making them on paper so as not to add the added pressure of it being on a panel which is what I normally create on.
Anyway, long story short, this mixed media piece started out in my sketchbook as part of my daily collage practice. But I liked how it turned out so I decided to cut it out and attach it to a cradled panel. This was No.9. I am currently on No. 30 if I make one today, which I plan to do.
The tree image is made out of two different trees. The title sprang from that. And of course in the background of my brain, I am always ruminating on current events and wondering when this society stopped seeing the wholeness in people who are different from them.