Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: baby

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme:"Babies!" Pantagruel (pahn-TAH-groo-ELL) is a baby giant—son of Gargantua, also a giant—in the tales of François Rabelais. The postcard image of crying babies is from a weird little book, Babylon: Surreal Babies. (Check out the cover image.) These baby postcards, says editor James Birch, "had a great influence on many artists in the 1920s and 30s, and were collected by Paul Éluard, Andre Bréton, Salvador Dali, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray."

Cut-paper collage postcard created for the Kollage Kit theme: "Skull and Crossbones." You're looking at four different photos of one skull of a newborn baby. Starting in the lower left and going clockwise: front view, back view (tipped to the left), side view, top view. The minerals in the orbits are chalcopyrite and diabolite. With markers and acrylic paint. I think newborns are fascinating, especially their heads. I used to be a nurse in a newborn nursery—most entertaining job I ever had.

Postcard for A, created for Waste Cut & Paste group: except for the demi-goddess (upper left), which came from a trashed art book, all the images are from my junk mail. Humorous note: the arm with the sword is from a Barbie catalog. It's part of a Barbie doll version of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. If you look at the fingers, you can tell they're plastic. =laugh= Samuel Beckett provides the title. The full quotation, I believe from Molloy , is: "Try. Fail. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." "Failing better" is a concept I often think about when I'm making collages, since I'm a 56-yr-old doctor who's never had an art class. I've only been making collages for two years. Perhaps Robert Browning's version of the concept will be more familiar to you: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,/Else what's a heaven for?" I keep telling myself: just attempting to make art is worthwhile, even when I don't succeed.