Self Portrait Collage

Collaged in class with 8th graders using a blown up photo of my National Reader Card I got at the Library of Congress last February. The poem below inspired the collage, which has indistinct actual sewing pins around the collaged part. The photo of lily pads from underwater was from the cover of the Northwest section of the Sunday Seattle Times from a few years ago. I loved the idea of someone actually photographing underwater in Greenlake, which, if you live in Seattle, you know to swarm with outerspace alien green algae not to mention Canada Goose poop. But I digress.