Paper Collages

Old magazines, pictures that pose; Junk cluttering, ready-to-throw; Stray offerings for scrapbook close; I'm selecting new collage flow. Flip each page here, tear picture pacts; A nice neat stack, stray page with poise; Beauty that steers, pieces of tact; Sift pile and slack, find image choice. With easy pace, seek treasures lost; Start to address new storyboard; Assign new space, at zero cost; Begin to press, cut-and-paste hoard. Cut, trim and gum, pieces of art; Ideas run wild in collage grain; Here and there lump, unusual parts; Just like a child: magic laid plain! And pictures grow, images lift; Collage art sings new melodies; New chance to glow, warm purpose sifts; Junk page now spring, clear textures see. Thus one by one, I shape new stuff; Discarded print, pictures galore; Artwork frees fun, prime zest enough; Colours and tints, avant garde core. I feel my soul, at ease with this; Paper cuttings, sharp cutter blade; Trim to make whole, relax with gist; Patchwork trimmings, pictures re-made! This strange crusade to re-use print; I come to know heals more and more; Art left unsaid, re-lives new mint; Collage that shows new life galore! Art goes to show that discards can Be of good use if I can see A brand new flow in whimsy's plan: Heart sparks a fuse to free beauty. Leon Enriquez 24 February 2014 Singapore