The most important thing to remember about all collage is that collage is the greatest recycling tool the 20th century ever invented. I cut my own teeth on The Foundations of Modern Art by Ozenfant who believed that to create is a need. There is an uneasy, throbbing: we feel the need to create. And that that need shall be realized, that a stray limb shall be grasped and dragged into the light, we must explore for ourselves.

Then for myself I realized, that to be able to drag in imagery from somewhere else, one must first know drawing, random connections, wit, and the senseless possibilities of everything that we have ever encountered. Each experience demands these qualities. Max Ernst realized this as did Picasso, and a multitude of others. They are footprints of our experiences of life. Winston Smith has grasped that stray limb and focused in on it, organized it to fit his own wonderful vision, his yearning to make a new reality to console his own view of the world.

Imagine walking out of 42nd Street into Times Square in New York and seeing everyone as Dodos in drag - everyone, that is, except you.

For your own sanity, be assured, you are inside a Winston Smith picture and you unexpectedly walked into view. Feel proud that you may well be the Spirit of the Unexpected. Therefore you exist, but your head is a prune. Relax. That is the essence of surreal intention and Winston Smith just made you a Star!!

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