A COLLAGE

handmade paper collage by collage artist Dave (@davesocozy). Original, 8 by 10 inches.

An original collage on white paper in a wooden frame. A finely detailed engraving of a perched songbird sits at the upper left beside black-and-white botanical drawings of thistles. A glossy green enamel flower with a white center anchors the upper right, and a large ornate cut-out capital letter A rests in the middle. At the lower left, a dark bumpy sphere and crumpled foil; at the lower right, two hands holding fountain pens draw looping yellow lines across a green field under a coral sky.