Tony

Michale

Estrada

Collages

The art works in this gallery would eventually lead me to the Ancestor series. I wanted to use simple photocopies or printer printouts and crayons and see what I could create. It brought me back to being a child, of cutting and pasting and putting things together that wouldn't normally fit. After the Guardian Series, which was about connecting to someone else, I wanted to go inside the human form, both literally and figuratively. It led me to a spiritual place that opened my heart.

Ascension, or The Curtain Will Never Come Down on the Imagination Theater, Side A

84 x 108" - Photo tranfer, gesso, and acrylic on canvas

Ascension, or The Curtain Will Never Come Down on the Imagination Theater, Side B

72 x 108" - Collage: oil pastels on photo transfer, colored pencil drawing, pastels on three panels of canvas with paper border

59 x 36" - Pastels and photo transfer on gesso on canvas

Human Nature VI

59 x 36" - Pastels and photo transfer on gesso on canvas

The Spark of Existence, Side B

72 x 84" - Assemblage - African fabric, and pastel, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas pieces

The Spark of Existence, Side A

72 x 84" - Assemblage: Oil pastels and pastels on photo prints and charcoal and pastel drawing

Stand on its End

50 x 72" - Assemblage: Charcoal, gesso, photo transfer on canvas glued together with African fabric

Human Nature II

42 x 48" - Collage on canvas: pastels and photo prints

Human Nature IVb

45 x 36" - Collage on canvas: pastels and photo prints

Human Nature IVa

45 x 36" - Collage on canvas: pastels and photo prints

42 x 50" - Collage on canvas: pastels and photo prints

Human Nature III

35.5 x 65" - Collage on canvas: pastels and photo prints

Gift to the Future, Side A

33 x 47" - Photo transfer, photo slide, and acrylic on canvas pieces glued together by African fabric

Gift to the Future, Side B

33 x 47" - Photo transfer and photo slide on canvas pieces glued together by African fabric