new collages

"strangers" 3x3 inch collage on arches paper includes a storybook girl walking into a typewritten passage from "how to read people like a book" on lined ledger paper. this collage is ready for purchase at my etsy shop paperpath : http://www.etsy.com/shop/paperpath.
"blustery raven" 5x7 collage with various vintage papers and a storybook raven wearing a scarf!!

installation

My most recent installation endeavor using receipt books. These are a few snippets of a piece that covers a 12x12 space and growing.

New collage works on paper.

Commission - travel collage

Above is a commission created during the Summer of 2009. The concept behind this work is: when traveling you collect things, mementos of your trip that end up in a box under your bed, (receipts, wrappers, tickets, packaging, money, maps, postcards, photos). If you keep all of these items from your trip and then send them to me I will turn your collection into a collage commemorating your travels. I have made collages with items from Thailand, New York City, Washington DC, Philadelphia. The collage pictured above is from a Europe trip to Britain, France, and Switzerland.

Collages at Trio

"Collages" by Rachel Smith

Willow Annex Gallery at Trio Vintners

November 18 - December 28.

Check out their websites:

http://www.willow-wallawalla.com/

http://www.triovintners.com/

4x4

two 4x4 inch collages for a spraygraphics show in march.

machines

this is the work i've done over my first semester in graduate school.  i have lovingly coined them my machines that do nothing.  i have been trying to work with found objects and the idea of organization.