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
