Lady K’s digitalization

The collages and words below are by Lady K . . . she created them for the Occupy Cleveland Daily Digest which she posts every other day at OccupyCleveland.com.

Collage riffing on the idea of revolution being implemented in a peaceful way–army of “Venusians” as opposed to “Martians,” as Mars has been associated in our myths with war whereas Venus with love. Hopefully we can retrofit our myths, though.

Person scaling the Free Stamp. The words “FREE” are upside-down and backwards on the stamp. This particular crop seems to indicate the word, “be” and also the peace sign.

Sign language for peace, my husband’s sun avatar and my mirror. Spell for comfort and warmth (albeit not global warming).

Collage of advent candles, moon, sky and hiker in green woods. Was thinking about use of resources on this planet vs. creature comforts–the fire seems to both burn the atmosphere and also offers hope of renewal. The hiker is starting on a platform of cloud through a path into the forest which goes to the moon. The advent season is a season of hope. Also wondering about the antigravitiness of it all.

Collage of midnight sun, polar bear family, and prayer poem to keep habitats intact for these creatures of the cold.

The word “Push” is from a door on Carnegie Avenue next to Aladdin’s Baking Company. The “Push” pops out of the page, pushing local purchase and economy with an eye towards keeping the globe safer. We can keep the globe safer by stopping so much shipping, so much international trade–this will sustain us better. But we need to sustain ourselve sustainably. Much money is to be made in this, and the use of the color green is meant to allude to not only money but making sure we are environmentally-oriented (albeit not by creating so much greenhouse gas). The peace sign is used to kind of counter the spread out hands and the concept of push–to show that it is a peaceful push rather than an aggressive push popping out of the page.

Collage of sign language that means “ant,” sparrow, shadow of myself on paint-spattered steps and earth. Sparrow is singing to Earth–sparrow is a sign of the song of God. Bone heart after Smith’s having written a poem about his secret name. Skeleton hand in head unknown and curious–would like to think of it as the ability to build infrastructure from thought–shadow. My womb will be barren as well so this photo is also about transcendence–how to transcend being barren. The bird’s beak is pointing in the same direction as the opening of the legs, but if the legs were fingers coming from a hand they’d sing “peace.” Mother Earth calls us to breed but we can sing songs for its fecundity as well–and fecundity does not have to directly translate into literal birth. Also playing with the ideas of rebirthing Earth and what this means. Paint spatters symbolize cosmos, stars as well, concrete steps symbolize the utility of concrete measurement in spiritual times. Also wanted to utilize the idea of ant on a couple levels; first being that it is important have more of an altruistic worker-mindset and focus on solving immediate problems for Mother Earth; second, the word play on aunt and ant and how that plays into my personal context & compensation since I am not having literal children; third, the idea of using mass mind to solve problems.

Collage of photos taken on Train Ave. I like the multiple levels of transcendence- diving through a window through a puddle on a road on the ground into ether.

Meditation on context, subject, object, field, happiness, concern, black, white, gray, color, face, 100, .01, activism.

Original digital collage inspired by Tinman song by Trenchcoat Manifesto. Was thinking our movement needed to think about its heart–in terms delineating too much from not enough–how does one tell? Also was thinking something about syncopation but can’t remember the context. Am interested in the symbolism of the words “Trenchcoat Manifesto” in terms of the slacker generation and unburdening ourselves of apathy and regaining heart.

For me the zebra first calls to mind my husband, the agent of chaos. He used a zebra in one of his most excellent collages, “e=mc2,” and also has a collage called “self centered,” so the name “Self Portrait” reminds me of this.

The name “Self Portrait” also reminds me of the oneness of everyone and I like the thought of looking at the collage and realizing that I am Self Portrait.

Zebras are also symbolic of how to hold dichotomies within the whole, and sometimes they are symbolic of the ability to blend in. The colors black and white also make me think of my husband as he is an ex-prisoner and uses the colors black and white in dichotomic yet integrative ways in many of his speculative photo compositions and samples of reality.

The zebra in this is spray painted on a train, which makes it fine art. It is standing under a rainbow of a single band of white, which is all colors.

Choices and Being. Chimpanzee contemplating death. We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. We have called ourselves omnivores but we do have the choice to stop eating so many of our fellow animals. So very much eating our fellow animals causes much destruction to the environment in terms of additional plants to raise the animals that are raised for slaughter. It is much more efficient to obtain protein from plants rather than our fellow animals. In addition, the fertilizer required to grow the plants to feed the fellow animals for consumption is hurting our ecosystem–not only our water–the production of use and fertilizer also creates more greenhouse gas production, so it hurts the air as well. Let’s stop hurting our air, water and fellow animals on such a large scale.