Last year, I felt called to play with printer paper as a medium and decided to play with a few methods. One technique was generating a digital collage with found images, printing the collage onto printer paper, then scanning the collage back onto the computer. I also tried an analog approach, printing a digitally rendered collage, leveraging mixed media techniques by drawing or writing atop, then scanning it back onto the computer. With both approaches I’d enhanced the scanned collages slightly by using something simple like the contrast setting or a texture overlay.

I really enjoyed this process for a few reasons! The first being the mere fact that printer paper is a relatively accessible material and the second being that this process is somewhat cathartic – the ebb and flow and level of trusting what step to follow next helps develop a level of trust with oneself and our creative channels. 

The down side of using printer paper seems to be perhaps the longevity and durability of the collage as well as the faded finish on the printer paper itself. Since these scans are slightly enhanced, the real life look of the prints are more faded than I like, but to each their own! 
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1. dust and bone
2. in retrospect, this was our final goodbye 
3. a  playful noise

6. this is my house