All the leftovers saved for later | Collage week 35

When one’s dead, one’s dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there’ll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that’s so very sad?

— Tove Jansson

I think collage is always, in some way, made out of “leftovers” and I love that. The magazines that others have discarded, the papers left from other projects, the ephemera of your days all coming together into a new whole. There’s also a lot of leftovers in a collage artists life. Papers become treassures that you save, year after year as you will see in these leftover collages. Some of my papers for example, I painted over 10 years ago. Others are newly made or found. This first collage is also a leftover from a week when I forgot to keep track of what I made so I created eight ceramic cat collages. This one have not yet been featured on the blog:

Guess where the title came from?

Then I had a couple of leftover postal stamps and envelope bits from my previous collage session on my desk, and instead of storing them for later I used all those bits up and kept going, making a few extra postal bliss collages for this week (week 35 of 2025).

This guy, mr Hairfair, is a used vintage placing card that I found in my mother’s mothers paper stash after she died about 2,5 years ago. I have some more of these figures so I’ll probably get back to them in later collages. He is a leftover from a time gone, a party had, a life lived. I paired him with a vintage magazine ad about a “hair tonic” for men, said to help growth and the scalp. I think it’s quite fun.

This happy guy is carrying home his found treassures on his back, or is he wearing his Halloween costume already?

Then a last nod to my past self creating a lot of collages dedicated to the imaginary boyfriend, I found another copy of this image, overwritten with text and already painted up, so I added him to a new collage foundation together with an image of a Japanese stamp. A leftover image hiding a way in the stash for years and years:

The squirrel, of course, being a representation of yours truly. :-) Jumping from this to that without much of a plan, with all these leftovers saved for winter. xo

Thank you so much for clicking over, taking a look and leaving me a comment below telling me which of these collages you like best – and why you like it. Take care.

Please also check out week 35 2013 (Paper Patchwork Edition) and week 35 2018 (Monochromatic Collages) if you have the time and want to see more of my art.

About this project: I am making one collage for each day of the year in 2025 and blogging seven at a time each week here. I have created 365 artworks in a year thrice before so I am hopeful that I can do it again. I’d love to know which of these you like best – and why you like it. Thanks for helping me finish this by cheering me on. I appreciate you being here.
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365 collages in 2025 | previously w. 34 | this is w. 35 | next up w. 36

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