Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: junk mail

Cut-paper collage. Outside of a fold-an-artwork project (see inside ). This side, after being folded into thirds horizontally and taped together, formed the "envelope" for mailing. Background from discarded books and newspapers. Foreground (except for hippo and postage stamps) all from my junk mail (catalogs).

Cut-paper collage: inside of a fold-an-artwork project. This got folded into thirds, vertically, with the opposite side (see outside ) forming a envelope for mailing. Background from discarded books and newspapers, plus a 1948 report card. Foreground images all from my junk mail (catalogs). Arrows cut from Taschen book, Magic .

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.