Some new sketches (lots of forms, lines and boundaries here...Ben!)
9 x small collaged sketches each is 7cm x 7cm. Placing them together as a grid makes it 25cm x 25cm. Coloured painted papers are left over from a few years back when I painted up large sheets of paper using Matisse's palette.
At the moment each of the completed 9 squares are individually placed in the grid - not stuck down. I was going to chop off the bits that 'stick out' then stick them down as a 9 square grid. But I've decided to pause as I quite like them like just as they are.
Lots of forms, lines and boundaries too...so, Ben, (genuinely interested question) following on from your thread what is collage? Is it drawing? or assembling/assemblage? or something else?
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I like the inner shapes sticking out. Gives the piece an organic unruliness. But also, I'd be interested to see what it looked like hacked back to neat squares. To answer your question: a collage is definitely painting. (Unless the cut-outs have a carefully drawn line around their cut edge.) However, the act of collaging may have a drawing aspect to it, as you may define a shape with a drawn line before cutting it out. Also - and more fundamentally - the act of cutting in itself could be regarded as a form of drawing.