Creative Collage Art & Mythical Works
by Lori Taylor
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Once a Wildish Time, 23 x 36" 2023, Collage on cloth, $445.00 BUY NOW
Inspired by the W. B. Yeats poem, this piece tells the tale of the mystical forest guardians in altered original watercolor, pencil and acrylic. Stitched paper on vintage fabric holds the story with antique laces and buttons and more.
Winter Sky Story Scroll, 40 x 8.5", $285.00 BUY NOW
The mystery of the stars tell their tale in this collaged sky scroll. Hanging on a reclaimed hardwood spool this piece is assembled on altered fabrics with my art transfers. Sea glass, wool, stitching, vintage crystal beads, and GLOW IN THE DARK thread embroidery mark the planets, constellations, and northern lights.
Mishe-Mokwe, The Legend, 8 x 10”, Mixed Media Collage on Cloth, 2023 $85.00 BUY NOW
This layered collage retelling the famed Odawa Indian legend ends with the Great Bear Mother, Mishe-Mokwe looking on from her sandy perch as her cubs, the North and South Manitou Islands dance upon the waves of Lake Michigan. The Song of Hiawatha text from Henry Schoolcraft, vintage buttons, driftwood, embroidery, sketched and stitched art transfers from my book illustrations, create this gentle scene celebrating a mother’s love, transformation, and promise of becoming what you dream.
The Journey of the Hero Begins, 9 x 12” Mixed Media on Wood
$125.00 BUY NOW
#1 in a Michigan legend series based on the life of the Anishinabe hero, Manabozho, set in Michigan parks and wild places. The journey of our hero’s magical childhood in the Hiawatha National Forest. Plaster, acrylic, Lino art print, clay owl.
#2 - Battle in the Rocks, 9 x 12” Mixed Media on Wood, $125.00 BUY NOW
Our Hero journey continues by battling his father the West Wind along the Lake Superior shore by throwing boulders at the other. A quest for self and identity. Birch bark, clay cast “stone point” of a found artifact of chert, plaster, acrylic.
#3 - Arch Spirit Portal, 9 x 12” Mixed Media on Wood $125.00 BUY NOW
The famed eroded breccia stone spirit portal Arch Rock on Mackinac Island where the creation of life was said to spring forth on the back of Mikinak the Great Turtle. Clay modeled turtle, collage, acrylic, plaster, beads.
#4 - Path of the Manito, 9 x 12” Mixed Media on Wood, 2024, $125.00 BUY NOW
Our Hero paddles on to retreat from human troubles, his work done. The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park setting with peregrine falcon guide, the western shore of Superior and home of falls named after Manabozho. Porcupine quills and lichen encrusted branch, acrylic on wood.
#5 - Journey’s End, 9 x 12” Mixed Media on Wood, 2024, $125.00 BUY NOW
The journey is over, a time to rest and heal as an eagle soars over the water.
acrylic, paper, clay canoe. It is said our Hero paddled to an island far out into Superior to spend his final days. Isle Royale is said to have had a spirit protecting the resources there and is a place to reset and remember our own journey.