Las Arenas Agosto 1933 3dimensional collage meaning Secret in Portuguese

meaning Secret in Portuguese

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With numerous quilt designs included within

made from a bicycle seat and handlebars) is the focal point for this handmade paper collage

Las Arenas Agosto 1933 3dimensional collage meaning Secret in PortugueseThe starting point for this collage was a vintage photograph I found at the Rastro, Valencias weekly flea market, of four women walking down the beach at Las Arenas in Valencia in 1932. A vintage calling card, with its accompanying tiny envelope, and some very old, trodden upon school notes added to the story I created with yet more papers and bits of packaging, making for a composition that hums with vintage vibrations, perhaps from the 30s and on