Essays related to collage exhibitions, 2003-2007

Subseries I.A.4., Essays related to collage exhibitions, contains booklets and their associated draft materials produced by Digby via The Feral Press as keepsakes for seven separate collage exhibitions: Concerning the Angels: Homage to Raphael Alberti; Cutting Hedges; Mythical Manuscripts Collages; Vignettes; Songs of the Sirens; Spirits of the Pinnacles; and Another Place, Another Time, Another World: Homage to Robert Hooke. In these essays, Digby explained some of his approaches to collage, revealing the influences and inspirations he found in poetry, book culture, the natural world, and elsewhere. The subseries contains drafts, layouts and mockups, notes, collages, exhibit ephemera, and correspondence. Items of note in this subseries include “The Boomerangs,” collages that were produced in conjunction with the 2005-2006 Spirits of the Pinnacles exhibition inspired by “curious rock formations on the western coast of Australia.” The boomerang-shaped collages, twelve original and thirty-one photocopied reproductions, are examples of Digby’s “intaglio collage” style, a technique of inlaying paper fragments to create the effect of a paper mosaic. The subseries also contains four framed collages from the Pinnacles exhibition, as well as four others, also framed, from the Homage to Robert Hooke exhibition. For further information about John Digby’s collage exhibitions, see series I.C., Exhibitions.