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KTB Collage
@ktbcollage.bsky.social
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Collage artist building visual thoughts with found material. Analog only, in protest of our overly-digital lives.

Little Free Library steward, Kiva volunteer editor, bike commuter, cat person, sock collector, lifelong learner. Live in flyover country.
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This was my sister’s cat. His official name was Emmett, but everyone called him the Angry Yeti.
A fluffy mostly white Persian cat with angry cartoon eyebrows and a speech bubble with special characters suggesting a curse word.
September 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Recommended read:
Photo of a book cover showing a gray striped cat coming out of a prescription bottle. Text reads: USA today bestselling author Syou Ishida A Novel We’ll Prescribe You a Cat Cats are always the purrfect cure. Translated by E Madison Shimoda
September 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The world feels afire, but it’s the season for monarch butterflies to visit my yard. Their beauty strikes my heart.
An orange-and-black butterfly rests with wings unfolded on a purple multiflowered plant with green leaves in the background.
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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VOLLEY
8”x10” on scrapbook paper
Week 25 image from @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social #pariscollageclub #collage #collageart #handcutcollage
A black and white photo of a decaying airplane body is the main part of the image. On the right and left side of the image are turquoise half-circles that each have an orange/red-toned women’s hand in them. The left-side hand and motion marks appears to push the plane to the right. The right-side hand is extended similar to a STOP motion and has three short emphatic lines coming from it. The plane also has longer, gray emphasis lines coming from it. The background is a linear floral pattern, primarily orange.
June 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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LAST CALL
8”x10”
Week 24 image from @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social #pariscollageclub #collage #collageart #handcutcollage
In the center of the image are a woman’s eyes, their expression flat. She is peering out from behind green leafy plants. Behind her are fragments of images of dark green forests. A strip of cloud-whitened overcast sky cuts diagonally through the image. And old black and white image of a hand painted sign reading LAST CALL overlays the green leafy plants below the woman’s face.
June 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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MISS KITTY’S FEELING WASPISH
Feeling blocked, so I slapped this together with the week 23 image of the #pariscollageclub challenge.
Upper half of a black cat’s face atop the bottom half of a sort of pointillist black and white illustration of a woman’s face. There’s a moth positioned like a bow on one of the cat’s ears. There’s out-of-proportion body of a woman wearing Victorian dress that looks like the bottom half of a wasp. A piece of old paper with the cursive words “Miss Kitty’s feeling waspish” is at the bottom of the page.
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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SPACE WALK
Catching up with the week 17 image that’s been sitting on my desk forever @pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social
#pariscollageclub
#collage #collageart #analogcollage #handcutcollage #cutandglue
A black and white image of a woman walks across the white stripes of a crosswalk suspended against the starry darkness of space. Bottom right is a yellow road sign with an arrow pointing in both directions. Top left is a white and yellow striped butterfly fish.
June 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The response one of my senators just sent me after I contacted them and asked them to support the NPS:
Thank you for contacting my office regarding staff reduction at the National Park Service. The Trump Administration, acting through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is working to reduce bureaucratic inefficiency and streamline federal services. In 2019, the federal government spent $4.4 trillion dollars. In 2024, it was nearly $6.9 trillion. That’s roughly a 55% increase in just five years. This level of unchecked spending is unacceptable. With DOGE, we can take meaningful steps to ensure taxpayer dollars are used more responsibly. As a part of this effort, the Trump Administration has reduced staffing at the National Park Service. The National Park Service manages 433 parks, including five units in Nebraska. I will continue to monitor the impacts of this decision to ensure our national park units remain well-maintained and accessible for all to enjoy. My primary mission as your United States Senator is to make government work with proven Nebraskan solutions that are ready for America. To better inform my decision-making, it is important that I hear the ideas, concerns, and opinions of all Nebraskans. I appreciate the time and effort you took to provide input on the staff reduction at the National Park Service and will continue to monitor the situation.
June 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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iPhone photo ID doesn’t help. I can assure you that Freyja is a found-under-a-stack-of-pallets-in-western-Nebraska cat, NOT a Norwegian Forest Cat or Siberian Cat. 😹
A floofy brown tabby cat, which “Siri knowledge” is suggesting as a Norwegian forest cat or Siberian cat, with links to Wikipedia articles on each.
May 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Sending peace to people who are struggling today.
A brilliantly pink rose just beginning to open on a rose bush, with another bud next to it and others visible in the background.
May 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Got up and Freyja stole my spot on the couch. Classic #caturday move.
A fluffy brown tabby cat curled in a sleepy upside-down ball is studiously ignoring the camera.
May 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Gandalf tires of brain-poisoned slacktivists.
A headshot of a gray and white cat. The cat’s eyes are slightly squinted.
April 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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NO MATCHES REQUIRED
Week 16 2025
book & magazine images on paper
10”x8”
#pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
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In an illustration a woman holds up what could be a magnifying glass. Behind her head, a plushie sun smiles on a purple-splotched background. A yellow focused beam of sunlight from the magnifying glass sets a stack of books on fire. A column of dark smoke billows to the top of the image.
April 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The tiny redbud trees I planted in the fall AREN’T dead!
A tiny, out-of-focus tree with a finger in the background for scale.
April 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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SECTIONED
Week 15 2025
book and magazine images on paper
7”x5”
#pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
@pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social
Gray twigs divide the image into four irregular shapes. Bottom shape is filled with fragments of red images: grass, folded paper, wavy lines, pleated and frilly fabrics, coral. Top shape is filled with fragments of green images: reptilian print, draped cloth, agate, digitally smeared photo, portion of a DNA helix, aurora, illustration of a meadow. Left shape is filled with yellow images: hexagon pattern, sweater, gold bars. Center shape is filled with brown shapes: wood, fake turtle shell, carved wood, book edges. Atop the turtle shell is the staring dark brown eye of a woman with brown skin.
April 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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LIFE ANGLES
Week 14 2025
book images on paper
8”x10”
#pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #tornpaper #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
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A black and white photo of a woman’s eyes dominate the image. Above are tree trunks rising to the sky, with yellow foliage. Below are flames, roiling downwards from the upside down silhouettes of tree tops. Around the edges of the image are triangles of various shades of gray.
April 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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REVERIE
Week 13 2025
book images on paper
7”x5”
Includes print by Tom Chadwick and paper patterns from Lotta Jansdotter.
#pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #tornpaper #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
@pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social
Black and white Illustration of a youth wearing a one-shoulder-strap garment and holding a shepherd’s crook surrounded by plants is torn in an abstract shape. Torn papers with botanical patterns in black, orange, and yellow-green highlight this image. The youth is looking down and left, towards a black-and-white illustration of pert lips.
March 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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High five from Gandalf the Gray and White.
March 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ADVOCATE
Week 12 2025
book and magazine images on 9”x13” foam core board
#pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
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The background is a black and white image of a round cactus in the center of blackness. Lower left is a black and white megaphone releasing a swirl of red paint that covers most of the cactus. The word ADVOCATE in white letters on a red background appears bottom right.
March 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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DAMN THE PHONE LINES ARE DOWN AGAIN
Week 11 2025
5”x7” book and magazine images on paper
#pariscollagecollective #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
@pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social
Surreal collage. The background is wood: a brown barrel with a drilled hole and a blue-painted plank floor. On top of the flooring and adjacent to the barrel hole are illustrations of insect heads in turquoise and brown. In a pyramidal shape bottom right, the silhouettes of telephone poles recede into a murky turquoise fog.
March 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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FIREFLOWER
Analog collage of images from magazines, a book, a photo frame insert and a prayer pamphlet on Stonehenge paper.
8”x10”
#collage #collageart #analogcollage #handcut
The image background is a wall of flames. An image of a standing soldier wearing a helmet is somewhat obscured by blowing orange dust. His rifle, pointed down, overlays a circular cutout of outer space with a brightly glowing star near his toe. Under the space circle is a large blue-purple chrysanthemum flower. Stretching up from the flower is an illustration of Jesus with his arms outstretched, surrounded by an end-to-end circle of robed figures, inside a square in which soldiers with spears appear in the corners. An extended hand fan behind the main soldier’s helmet suggests a halo.
March 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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MY HOUSE
Took a class where the assignment was to create a building with meaning to you. I don’t like the result. Oh well. It was a day of cutting and gluing.
#collageart #collage #analogcollage #handcut #myhouseisaveryveryveryfinehouse
A Tudor-style house made of patterned papers. In the doorway s a walk-signal person. In the first floor window are rows that f red theater chairs. In the arch of the porch is a French baguette postage stamp. In an upper window is a model of a molecule. A large opening is torn in the side of the house and filled with honeybees wearing numbers. The sky of blue torn paper. A black and white jet and a blue butterfly fly there. The yard is gold glitter. A black and white typewriter is in the yard. A cat peeks its head up into the yard from the bottom of the image.
March 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Freyja says the packing paper is HERS. She will not share!
A fluffy tabby cat sits on a piece of crumpled brown packing paper with her head tilted down, looking out of the top of her eyes, giving her an angry look.
March 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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AN XI OUS
Week 9 2025
5”x7” book and magazine pages on paper
#pariscollagecollective #handcut #collageart
#collage #analogcollage
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Black and white photo of a woman’s face, sliced horizontally and put back together in a staggered manner. On the lower portion of the image are three parts of a word torn from a magazine, the font resembling handwriting: an xi ous
March 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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CHEMICALS
Magazine images on black-gouache paper
5”x7”
#collage #collageart #analogcollage #handcut
Against a background of test tubes with orange liquid is a woman’s head. She has wet turquoise hair that’s covering her eyes. Above her, a man wearing gloves and a hard hat turns a large valve on pipes that are releasing turquoise liquid onto her head.
March 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM