Perfect in Every Way

Simple, elegant. Everything you could possibly want in a sock monkey. Intelligence, and a piercing demeanor. Not just a sock monkey... but also... a friend.

Soulful

This is a very handsome monkey, even though I don't normally like the color blue. It has very nice eyes, and a nice argyle pattern. It seems to also be saying: I've been through a lot. Long drives, long walks, east coast, west coast, natural disasters, laundromats, fixed elections, shoes, boots, sock drawers, mismatches, and mending. And here I am, today, saying: take me home.

Where is my dictionary?

There is something just LOVEABLE about this monkey. Am I wrong? Just LOVEABLE!

Or is it LOVABLE? LOVEABLE? Or LOVABLE?

If you say LOVEABLE (or LOVABLE) enough times, it seems to turn into a product name, like a brand of soap or something.

The same can be said for... dare I say it... LOVE.

Beautiful Green

This monkey's head was filled with food coloring bottles, those little ones with the pointed caps. Eventually it leaked out, sometimes with the help of a loving individual. It was kind of messy, and I had to wash it. It kept changing, evolving. I wish most people had as much going on as this monkey.

This is not a happy collage

I feel terribly guilty for being responsible for this collage, and for all the unhappiness it brings, and its generally disturbing nature. I can't blame the makers of the original images, really, I have to take the blame. For example, what was once a simple peperoni pizza now feels to me like a heart being ripped from, not only the chest of the person in question, but from their entire experience.

This monkey says HI!

I've lost track of the monkeys that I've made, and given away, and sold, and found new homes for, and photographed. For all I know they could be getting up on their own power and walking out of the house and going out on their own. I am particularly fond of this one, though he may already be living with someone else. It may be a she. He or she may have a name, now. Or maybe this monkey is still at home, with the other monkeys.

It Takes T to Tango

This is a small collage. I'm not sure of the exact measurements... but it’s small. I think it's called "T." Can you guess why? If you guess right, and I'm wrong and that isn't the title, I guess that implicates us both. This is a shape that reminds me of a particular movie screen shape. It's not quite as severe as CinemaScope, but it's more wide than normal. This is "Wide Screen." Talking about movies, I see a scene from a famous movie in there. This shouldn't be so obvious, but I guess I couldn't help myself. Will I never learn?

"N"

I think the title of this collage is "N" -- though I don't know if it has quotation marks around the N -- or why I felt compelled to do that now. I think that it's because one letter feels kind of naked by itself, and those quotation marks make it seem less lonely. Maybe the N stands for naked. It's a gold N that looks like it was added on later, though it wasn't. Maybe the N stands for No, it wasn't added on later. Is that the actor Tom Cruise standing in front of an American flag? I can't believe I included such an image. Maybe it works, though-- it's beyond me to decide. Maybe the N stands for Nicole Kidman, the actress. They used to be married, but Not Now. Maybe this collage is about all or Nothing. It's about everything being either forever, or Never.

Creepy

This is a fairly new collage. I feel like I was sinking kind of low with this one. Not that I think it's bad-- I like it. It's just that it's kind of obvious. And it doesn't look like something that I would do. I don't know. Maybe someone knocked me out and made this, and when I came to, I thought that I had done it. That's a creepy thought, and this is a creepy collage. But I really like it.