Materials: paper, watercolour, pen, misc. National Geographic images, paint chips

When I think about fossils, I think about how everything we create is a fossil, in the sense that living a creative life always involves some element of collage, layered experience sedimenting into art or writing or music, or whatever. What is a fossil if not a collage of rock and bone? Is it clear that I don't exactly know what a fossil is? I made this image by cutting out and gluing together any images from some old Nat Geos that looked vaguely fossil-y. I layered them around the edges to try to make it look like the errosion on the side of sedimentary rock. I painted the fossil in the middle, and then cut out the pieces that would "explode" outwards, kind of like the criticism of art or writing that dissects the sedimented art form. Then I used paint chips from Home Depot to make them look sedimented and strange, too.