Collage

“Star of Abraham”
collage artifact
John Andrew Dixon

My wife and I recently saw “LINCOLN,” the Spielberg picture with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. It reminded me of the project I created to honor the bicentennial of the 16th president’s birth. I had made the decision to exploit my stash of Lincoln images to totally cover a metal star. To produce a collage tribute to the martyred leader with a folk-art approach seemed to me a technique appropriate to the occasion. What do you think?