“Security Envelope Cityscapes”

September 2023

9″wide x 9″ high

security envelopes on 1980s scientific library catalog cards with postal stamps and admission tickets

I go down these ephemera rabbit holes on Etsy and end up with the most wondrous materials.  I found a guy who sells tiny pieces of security pattern envelopes.  Yes!  I got a security envelope in the mail full of itty bitty security envelopes.  (It was very meta.)

So I dumped them out on a background of library catalog cards and just played around until they turned into something.  Most times I have an idea going into a collage, but not today.  These cityscapes kind of just happened.  It was fun getting lost in the minutia.