Here's something

Pleased with this EXCEPT for overall size.  Something has been telling me for close to a year to work larger, and something else keeps saying "no."

 This piece is mounted on 12x12 wood panel, with four smaller panels carrying the main images.  It has "citra-solved" Nat'l Geo pages, phone book pages, a really exciting photo tranfer technique that I devised all by myself, although I assume it's pedestrian to more experienced artists, the elongated triangles that are featured time after time in my work, and it has text, of course, with vigorous words attesting to the power of wild places.

Showing examples of the photo transfer technique.  It's parts of the same photo, but they are layered over different background paper.  The detail is surprising, when you can see it live.

 In the above, anything that looks sort of melted, IS, in fact, melted.  Solvent on ink from magazine images. This image also shows a triangle made of really decorative paper, that elicited a comment from my first and most powerful mentor- just a passing comment, but it started with, "One thing Laurie's really good at..."  This was wildly affirming. 

He's one reason the thing feels so cramped, but as far as the composition, group (and I) agreed he's integral.

Now you can see the background paper for portion on the left.

Background paper on the right very plain.  This also shows some accenting with silver.

So next, I need to figure out how to do the photo transfer on a much larger scale, to see if I can get rid of that cramped feeling.  I don't mind the viewer interacting with it very closely, as I said- the detail is unbelievable- but I do mind it that they HAVE to.

This piece is so very satisfying because it was created wholly "in the zone"- start to finish in 4 hours.  I love the composition, I love the elements that I could not control (some of the papers are altered with solvent), I love that it has text, a theme of man's eternal tussle with both harvesting and protecting natural resources, I love the dimension, I love the subtle interplay of verticality with the tangled branches, and most of all, the photograph itself is profoundly sentimental.  I love it.