SOME OF DAN'S FIRST Imaginal Trading Cards

Notes on Composing from other artists:

DAN'S WORK-IN-PROGRESS  02-04-07 a photo as I had just started the first card

02-06-07  Then I wanted to do more at a time since I had all th materials  and glue out ... Card with forest green tiissue,  little gold foil (from a Xmas plant), some ink...  These are scans, not photos

02-07-07 ... having added "shed snake skin" that came in a middle of the night thought, some fabric from my great grandmothers wicker chair, lichen...  I've temporarily "lost" the 1/3 --2/3 concept... or perhaps scattered the concept of Upperworld Self and Otherworld self throughout the card

02-09-07  I 'm starting a new group I've mixed up handfuls of dry leaves from the cormer of a back porch, added some dried Hydrangias.  Glue all over four cards, thne the geometry of ripped forest green pieces of tissue paper and then some of my leaves.

New Procedure:  I put wax paper over each of these and press them flat as they dry.  Too much curling on the first ones.

02-10-07  Reactions the next morning... Hmmm a start.  Hey, Wait.... I'm sitting at my computer... behind which are many many pictures that have been there for years:

There are connections between what I have placed at my computer shrine and what I am concocting out in my workshop.

Oh, how certain images and compositions linger and lurk and just wait to come back:

I've always responded to the glance of the face cards, A friend, Charlie, had drawn me in a similar "watching" position 1985

Hey, aren't Holy Cards, really Religious Tra

ding Cards:

And, finally, I have collected Kuba Cloth...

And finally, finally

IM Cards started 2.17.07

IM Cards started 2.19.07  Pink glossy card stock, wasp nest, Birch bark