Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: Trump

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme "Arts & Crafts" (not the art movement—the activity). Does this collage strike you as... well... weird? Does it seem different from my usual style (whatever that is)? I hope so. I have Josephine, one of the crew on the Kollage Kit, to thank for this. She commented that the combination of a background grid pattern, and paranoia about what the government is up to (endemic in the U.S. right now, for sure), seemed to work well in my "they're watching us" collage. So I did it again: background grid, weird blues, paranoia about the government. And thanks to Ron, too, for suggesting a theme that gets me out of my usual neatnik O-C sort of style. As Rainer Maria Rilke so memorably put it,"Du mußt dein Leben ändern." ("You must change your life.") Sometimes, in order for change to happen, things have to get messy during the transition. =laugh=

Created for Kollage Kit theme: "Myths and Legends (and Hoaxes & Fakes).” Artist Jon Foster, of IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists), mails "Add and Return" cards to anyone who sends him their mailing address. The template for what you see here is one of those cards, modified by yours truly with cut-paper collage, rubber stamps, and markers. Why "No Laughing Matter?" Because even though American TV comedians (including news commentators) are having a heyday of humor since the Combover Clown was elected President, I'm afraid I'm not laughing. Donald J. Trump may not be the Great Cthulhu, from whom several myths derive—frankly, I doubt he's intelligent enough to be one of Lovecraft's Elder Gods—but it seems to me he's at the center of a tentacular network of greed and corruption. Even, eventually, of bloodshed. I sometimes use frames to set off material that I don't wish to consciously acknowledge: hence, a brown frame with images of fertility/creativity goddesses wearing the pink knitted "kitty hats" that women wore during the March on Washington and at other protests.