148 Bonnie Meadow Road -

"Laura"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... not even the suburbs want to be the suburbs anymore..."
- David Ginsburg

Nedda -

"Pagliaccio's Wife"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I can't explain where this piece came from. As best as I can recall it's the result of a little bit of cross-pollination and accidental research during the creative process. The image wasn't working the way I wanted at first and it took a while to complete. Somewhere, somehow, I stumbled into poster art for the classic opera, Pagliacci, and began to see a direction. Anyway, it's finished, time to move along.

Drawing water from the well -

"The Farmer's Wife"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Lately I've been reminiscing about summer days when I was a boy and taking great delight in walking through the pastures, meadows and woods of my grandparents small farm. Walking, especially at a young age, is just about the only manner of transport convenient to hand, and foot if we press the point. Seeking the right walking stick, the best path, flushing pheasant from the tall grass, listening to bird and bee. All of this while accompanied by a faithful dog, a barn cat or two and the scolding voices of squirrels, jays and the red winged blackbird. How then to document walks that only exist as memories? Around the next bend, perchance, we'll have an opportunity to ask the farmer's wife.