Digital collages & poetry by CR Smith

Moon Eye Digital Collage

Moon Digital Collage

Fairy Blue Moon Digital Collage

Slant Stones in Graveyards
 
I recall soft orange earth
where tall green weeds
 
writhed restlessly
in the full south wind,
 
and pale ghosts fed
slant stones in graveyards
 
quiet conversations of the dead
beneath shattered moonlight.

Moon Eye Digital Collage started life as a paper cut collage, which was then photographed in order to manipulate it digitally. A pastel effect has been used to soften the image, the aim being to make it visually ambiguous. Is it the moon breaking through clouds or a watchful eye? 
 
Moon Digital Collage began with an old photograph of a tree. The aim here is to show how the skeletal shape resembles the bronchi and alveoli of the lung. This collage is entirely digital, although the method is pretty much the same as a paper cut one with layers being built up to create texture. Both the tree and moon represent stability and balance, and the cyclical nature of life.
 
Fairy Blue Moon Digital Collage is tinted blue, the colour of peace, tranquility and meditation. There is nothing more ephemeral than a fairy clock (or puffball as they are sometimes known) so the moon has been replaced with this delicate globe, suggesting the wishes made under a full moon, wishes that, like the dandelions seeds, carry dreams and hopes on the wind.

~ CR Smith

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CR Smith is a student of Fine Art at the University of Kent, UK. She creates artwork from inconsequential items that have been abandoned or discarded — those items most people would assume are rubbish. Working with mixed media, she is led by whatever she finds, sometimes using it directly in her collages, sometimes using it as inspiration for sculptures. Her stories and poetry have been published both online and in print while her artwork has appeared in Calamus Journal and Hypnopomp Magazine, with upcoming pieces scheduled for Flash Frontier and Green Light Literary Journal. You can find examples of her work here and here. Twitter @carolrosalind