Where did you get your idea?
After our trip, I created a series of seven prints of the Statue of Liberty. But they didn’t look the way I wanted. One was red, another blue. I thought, red, white, and blue are the colors of the American flag. Why don’t I use these prints to make a collage American flag? It felt like a good solution to my problem.
How did you create the collage?
First, I cut my prints into random shapes. I glued the shapes on a large sheet of paper in an overlapping pattern to create a layered look. I laid down dots of different shades of blue paint in the upper left corner. I used the edge of a piece of cardboard to smear the paint and create a mottled background. I cut a star out of a small square of linoleum with an X-acto knife. I added white paint to the linoleum and stamped each star onto the blue background. Finally, I painted over sections of the collage with red and white paint to suggest the stripes.