This Baader-Meinhof piece has quite a history. It started out as a contribution to college friend Sarah Blackburn’s Postcard Exchange. She created a Facebook group with the intent to send postcards to members with randomly monthly drawn partners. I was excited until the reality of my failure sank in.

The bottom image is the actual cut. Three simple layers. A text layer. Rose and thorns as a shaft of light. All nicely paired with a Tiffany advertisement. I thought the Tiffany ad was an appropriate. It’s not about co-opting luxury goods but subverting them to your own ends.

The image kept appearing again and again. This actual shot from The Village Voice. Reviewed due to new prints in circulation if I remember.

The idea had been repeated through The Baader-Meinhof Complex and then Fassbinder’s Technicolor assault. It just kept repeating. Even reminding me of the styling of Colin Baker as the sixth incarnation of Doctor Who. So I seized the idea.

The bottom piece was complete. But I needed some way of sealing the surface to insure the safety of the piece for travel through the mail. I chose that old gel medium from the first Agyness. As you can see it didn’t turn out quite so nicely this time.

It’s just not the perfection it was before the gel medium and it made me not send the piece. Another project I flaked out on due to failure and the resulting spiral. I should have just printed the top digital mock-up and let it ride. It’s a lovely combination of Gloria Vanderbilt and Cy Twombly.

But something always prevent me from considering digital pieces as real. I have to get over this idea. I will try to post more digital pieces here in an attempt to break that horrible mindset.