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At the Border BluesI'm walking slow and easy,
so I do myself no harm.
Got my papers in my pocket,
got the bracelet on my arm.

I walk along the border
and I do not see a guard.
Crossing over looks so easy -
you might think it would be hard.

You can always find somebody
who will tell you not to go.
If I talk about what's wrong here,          
they say I would miss it so.

But I hear there is a city
with real people on the street.
None are dangerous or witless,
like so many that I meet.

And the towers of that city
do not stand to shake a fist.
They rise for the sake of beauty
and their beauty is not missed.

Some have gone and then come back her

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Paper collage on cardboard, 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

I put it together with the gray flannel slacks upright but when it was done I liked it better this way.
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~hoaxeye Feb 5, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
I'm liking this one a lot. Kudos.
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*RichardLeach Feb 5, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks, James. I didn't know where this one was going as I made it - well, I usually don't but this one more so - and it came together well at the end.
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~hoaxeye Feb 5, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
It can be like that sometimes with a photo, especially the square cropped ones. I'm looking at it and thinking "no, that won't do." Then imagination takes over. Maybe zoom in a little, chop off the sides, change to monochrome, add some grain, and voila' ... magic. I get away with it if there is enough resolution to begin with. If the camera was lower rez, it wouldn't work at all.

Sculptors always say that the statue is there all along, you just have to find a way to release it. Ha!
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*RichardLeach Feb 5, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
I know that line about sculpture and join you in that Ha!
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~hoaxeye Feb 6, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
..smile..
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*LauraTringaliHolmes Feb 1, 2011
I'm enjoying this emboldened style.
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*RichardLeach Feb 1, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks! That was a background I didn't know what to do with, it's been here for months. And then last week I just - glued stuff down on it!
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*LauraTringaliHolmes Feb 2, 2011
I hear you, for sure!
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~fredfree Jan 30, 2011
very leggy!
i don't want that means.
it just is!
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*RichardLeach Jan 31, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
it is are leggy! thanks!
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