collage & assemblage
all images copyright pat kight, aka jezebel
it's all upstream from here
one of a series of stamp/collage meditations on the fate of the pacific salmon
original is
9"x12", collaged on black cardstock and crudely framed with a border
of hand-carved "one way" signs on quarter-inch foam-core. this piece
makes heavy use of resist stamping with clear and metallic embossing powders;
the frame was embellished with gold rub 'n'buff. the primary fish was stamped
in black on washi paper, clear embossed and then stamped again in blue, slightly
offset, and embossed again. The legend "it's all upstream from here"
was stamped on a piece of gold spray-painted cardboard and clear embossed. it's
hard to see in this scan, but the background includes many smaller versions
of the fish, "swimming" in the opposite direction.
stamp credits: large and small
salmon - fred b. mullett; bubbles - unknown; spiral - hero arts.
waves and one-way sign are hand-carved on mars-staedtler drafting erasers.
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