Worth 50,000: Day Eight - I'll Carry You Home

[momebie]

Max Ernst was a surrealist painter and a member of the Dada movement, but I know him best for his collage, which tends to find me no matter where I am on the internet. The image below is taken (I believe) from Une semaine de bonté, a surrealist graphic novel that is made up of 182 images he created by cutting up and reorganizing Victorian encyclopedias. For those of you familiar with Wondermark!, it's kind of like that. I wish I could say something intelligent, like how Ernst's work holds more interepidation and danger than that of the other artists who also use this technique, but I just haven't read enough yet to be sure. (I wonder if I can order that off Amazon...)

The key to collage is, much like writing, knowing what you want to represent and pulling together the pieces that you think will get you there. Which part of this image are you going to pluck away and make something new with?



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Comments

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

I think I can work with this.

[xsnarkasaurus.livejournal.com]

So you wanna tell me why you're posting old fashioned bondage porn? XD

[earlofcardigans.livejournal.com]

what exactly is she tied to? I might think about this all day. I don't know how I feel about that.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

"C'mere," Ray said. "You gotta see this."

"What?" I said. The paper in the lockbox was old, probably from the 1800s. I couldn't figure out what we might be able to do with any of it except kindling at this point. Then I got close enough to see it, really see it.

"She's tied up," I said.

"Vintage porn," he said, with relish. "Can you believe it? This was somebody's treasure."

I shook my head. Sure, I had a couple of magazines under the bed, but they weren't in a special lockbox.

"They probably would've been worth something before," Ray said. "Holy shit, this one has a donkey--"

I turned away. "Have fun," I said, laughing. "Should I tell Frankie?"