Collage is one of my favourite things, since almost as long as I have loved Mandalas. It seems to me that any excuse to ad colour into life is a good excuse. So, many years ago I bought this old ‘beater’ VW Rabbit for about $300 and I got what I paid for, with my Uncle rewiring and my cousin helping patch the holes finally I arrived at the repainting part of things which was more expensive than the whole car so painting was not an option. But, my sensibilities would not let me drive around in an ugly klunker so I hatched a plan and began cutting out old magazine photos and images (recycled car and magazines,yay). I remember that it took 1,400 ctouts and a week of gluing them onto the body of the car. Then once the glue had set I put on three oats of heavy duty ‘marine ‘varnish... and when I drove her to visit friends in Montreal she was named ‘Snippit... That car lasted only a year but it sure turned alot of heads, in fact I got asked to bring Snippet to a couple of schools to show the kids... In the end she died a slow painful death, I did hang onto her for awhile until fimnally she was shipped off to the junk yard...a sad day that was but that was the begining of a good thing...now I use all kinds of fun stuff for collaging...
