Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: Marilyn Monroe

Cut-paper collage postcard. Photograph (1960) of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold. In 1962 Marilyn Monroe said, "I do not consider myself a kind of merchandise but I am sure that many people do not see anything else in me... That is what annoys me: a sex symbol becomes an object. I hate being an object." Machinery photos (1900) taken by Bernd & Hilla Becher are of blast furnaces, which turn iron ore into molten metal.

This collage arises from my recent focus on reducing the quantity of paper (piles & books) in my house, and bringing order to what remains. I'm calling it the BERP, for Big Entropy Reduction Project. It's kind of like spring cleaning, except it's spring organizing. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, stated very simply, says that in a closed system, entropy (disorder, randomness) keeps increasing 'til the system is at equilibrium. So even if you start with an elephant thinking about spring and offering flowers to Marilyn Monroe (upper left), eventually things run down into detritus. The telephone pole (middle left) stands for information, which can make the system more orderly, or not. I don't really know. Fortunately for the state of my house, though, let alone for all other human endeavors, we don't live in a closed system. Other stuff is happening in the Universe, like the birth of new stars. And there are spiritual forces, too, perhaps (Buddha in upper right).

Cut-paper collage postcard created for swapbot swap: "Put a Fish on It." Bicycle background from a photo by Ai Weiwei. Mismatched woman parts from Tom Tierney paper dolls. Fish are all goldfish: the varieties are (from top to bottom) common, gold veiltail, pearly-scaled fantail, and shubunkin. For those of you who don't know it: these two collages are my take on the expression "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."