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Alienland #2

Debra Ripp — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:05:23 GMT

Alienland #1

Debra Ripp — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:58:24 GMT

image: Alienland #2

Mr. Akimbo

Debra Ripp — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:02:41 GMT

Ladies in Grace

Debra Ripp — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:53:44 GMT

Blue Ladies

Debra Ripp — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:25:40 GMT

image: Ladies in Grace

Death by Timber

Debra Ripp — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:05 GMT

Death by Timber is the beginning of my tree collage series. It's a bit of a metaphysical joke,instead playing the chicken asking around for its mother, the chicken would go around picking fights with different kinds of trees. Tempting fate and the strength of his/her personal mortality,or the strength of nature.... I'm thinking here of the Cowardly Lion, "I'll fight ya with one hand behind my back.." That kind of thing.

Nativity

Debra Ripp — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:54:02 GMT

This is a pre-Journeyleg piece which introduces some characters in the Eggs in Exodus characters.

image: Yellow Backyard 2

image: Yellow Backyard 1

Coldcase page 1

Debra Ripp — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:49:00 GMT

image: Coldcase page 2

Coldcase Cover

Debra Ripp — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:44:06 GMT

This is an example of one of my handmade books in progress. Coldcase refers to a case unresolved, the uneasy feeling that there is something mysterious &/or dreadful about to be discovered beneath the surface of the image. What it is, is not known but it has a ghostly sense about it.

Get Out

Debra Ripp — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:24:48 GMT

This is my first handmade book. Get Out is a handmade artists book,created in an accordian format, with images on either side of the pages and two title pages on either end. This book manifests the theme of intrusion with strong sympathy supporting the autonomy of the book/object itself. If you open the book expecting to be able discern the secrets there, the book actively hides its content in a type of frustrating nonsense, cryptic images and dislodged collaged poetry. It means what it says,: GET OUT! An overt slap on the wrist.It is not satisfying on any kind of superficial level, but hopefully speaks on a deeper level to the patient and poetry seekers.

image: Get Out backcover

image: Get Out

image: Get Out

image: Get Out

image: Get Out Page 7 & 8

image: Get Out page 9 & 10

image: Get Out Page 11 & 12

image: Get Out Page 13 & 14

Poltergiest

Debra Ripp — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:40 GMT

Poltergiest is an original monoprint. Ink painted on a thin plexiglass plate, scrafitoed, then sent through the press. This is one of the History pieces done in Graduate school. I enjoy the Gothic feel of the piece and hope to acheive this more in the future.

Arcadia Forest Furies

Debra Ripp — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:22:48 GMT

This work is, what I want to call, a "history piece". I painted this back in 1994, before I became a collagist. A friend just recently sent this image to me via e-mail and I would like to show it here. Sometimes it happens that you see a piece from a time before you gained a new perspective or sophistication. I think this is a good thing to happen, you can see the work in a fresh light or see a clear connection to present work, which is reassuring and very interesting as well.

Waterwheel

Debra Ripp — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:46:46 GMT

"Waterwheel" is another collage in the "Journeyleg" set of collages. This image is meant to convey the idea that traveling in circles generates a certain power or energy, good or bad, and portrays a protagonist and an antagonist, see if you can spot them.

Bone & Thistle

Debra Ripp — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:35:18 GMT

"Bone & Thistle " is the first collage in a set of collages that I call "Journeyleg". This particular collage precedes the main idea of the set, which is to reflect a translation from classic literature whose plotlines focus on journeys. I include this collage due to the impression of two animals passing one another while traveling in opposite directions, ships passing in the night, as they say.

Towers

Debra Ripp — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:58:07 GMT

The new cityscape which consists entirely of towers.