Paper Feather

I find great enjoyment from cutting up old magazines to be used in future collages.  I look for colors, textures, images, art, paintings, faces, people, patterns, words, phrases, products, anything.  Used magazines are a free medium.  A collage artists gold!   Today I found an image of a bronze feather sculpture, and once I carefully cut it out, it's silhouette looked exactly like a real feather.  Impressive, I know!  I tried to get inspired and put it together with other images, but nothing really grabbed me, so eventually I began to put things away and resigned to trying later.

I stacked my magazine cuttings into a pile, smaller pieces on top.  As I stood to relocate the paper pieces into a box, some of the smaller pieces almost flew off.  When I turned around the image of the feather took flight and gently swayed back and forth as it made its way to the floor, just like a real feather!