New and Improved (Prompt #7)

Had a lousy Monday in response to an even lousier Sunday night, so I thought it was some kind of synchonicity when the prompt was "new and improved." And I ended up with 2 collages out of the magazine pages I tore out ... both very different and yet both inspired by the same prompt. And there's nothing like improving my mood with a new collage!!

Prompt #3 -- Plump nee Junk Food

This prompt has been eluding me since last Thursday. I pulled out some things that I thought might work, but couldn't find anything that really sparked my interest. So the collage has been languishing for days. Determined to finish, I pulled some more stuff out last night, but the collage I thought I was working on kept fighting me, and I eventually had to let it do what it wanted, but it's still a mess. Somehow "junk food" turned into something more about fat and excess -- albeit in ways I don't even fully understand myself. So for whatever it's worth, here's the aftermath of the struggle. The stuff at the top and bottom that just looks blurry in the picture are neon lights in some big metropolis, probably Tokyo-- but why neon lights, lipstick, and chefs?? Goodness knows I don't know!!

Mannish woman

I had vague ideas about looking for either a woman doing something very manly, or creating a collage of a person that was part man and part woman... when I came across this credit card ad that did it for me. Not sure why the grass for the background, but perhaps its a sort of Eden like spot when woman is made of man or something. Odd things happen in the back of my head when I do these, and I'm not always sure if there's a meaning to them or not. The text at the top says "for all the sides of you."

Midnight Sun

So this was a tough prompt, but what I came up with was some lights on a film set, the globe showing a map of africa (which probably has nothing to do with 'the land of the midnight sun' but somehow I liked it) and a bit of an advert with some neon lights. It's much brighter in person... but perhaps that's appropriate for a piece entitled "midnight sun."

Necessary Evil

this was Friday's prompt, and I guess I must have had finances and bill paying on my mind as I paged through my magazines looking for something that was necessary and yet evil at the same time!!