The view from above is not the usual one, when we’re mired in our own stuff.

With this palette, it’s easy to think of desert, and hence mesas. The base collage here, created in 2022, was an experiment with graphite blocks — that rich brown texture! When I added a bit of map, some dressmaking tissue, and a few scribbles, it was done and deemed scan-worthy.

Additions in the digital version include watercolour washes, a rectangle, recent scribbles, and some selective pink from a gelli print, described for a similar base piece in this post, Adjusting Layers. Another piece, 3 years in the making.

Digital collage, 12 layers © 2024 Liz Ruest
From the Digital Aerials series

History

On display for World Collage Day, May 10, 2025, in Vancouver, courtesy of Atelier 8.18

Availability

• Signed editions created as custom orders: specify the base surface and size you’d like.