Coffee break -

"Gratie!"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... if this is coffee, then please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, then please bring me some coffee ..."
- Abraham Lincoln

Spilt!

"Mourning Coffee"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... a fig for partridges and quails,
ye dainties I know nothing of ye;
but on the highest mount in Wales,
would choose in peace to drink my coffee ..."
- Johnathan Swift

NEW from The Birdhouse Series -

"Birdhouse V"
digitally manipulated mixed media & drawing on paper by Mick Mather

It was close to a 12-hour day at the office and I'm beat to my socks. Yesterday, fortunately for me, I was playing around with a coffee stained piece of paper covered with notes (names, phone numbers and the like) in various colored inks; ball point pens for the most part. That particular stained paper is the precursor to another series that I may begin showing at some point. There's a lot of preparatory work to be done and it may or may not be soon, but I digress. After scanning, resizing, layering and manipulating, out popped another birdhouse! Yeah, hard to believe but, I swear, it's true!

Cup o'joe -

"Waiting For Morning"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I've had a series in progress, created by my coffee cup at work, for well over a year. Each month I put down a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" piece of white paper and set my cup on it for the next 30 days. Spills, spots, rings, splatters and what-have-you mark these pages, all from my morning coffee. It's been in a file for a few months now and it occurred to me that the next step in that project is at hand. I'll begin by scanning each page before I begin to play around a bit and have some fun. I'm not exactly sure where this will lead me and I'm not really thinking about it a lot at this point. Anyway, tonight's post is a toast to that forthcoming body of work.