A very pretty postcard collage arrived from a California artist going under the pseudonym "Fine Art." It's a wonderful piece that can be viewed as a single work but also as a collection of micropieces. The stencil is the most obvious, but the stamp at the upper left can also be considered as a "framed" stand-alone work. Less obvious, and obscured by the way I've chosen to display the card is the blue area, which, if the card is turned horizontally, reveals a very subtle brushwork that is reminiscent of a Hokusai ocean wave.
And that is only skimming the surface of this piece, which is not only more than the sum of its parts, but, at the same time, more than its apparent whole--a whole consisting of several independent wholes.
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