Collaborators
Erik Purins (California)
Jeremy Saum (California)
Sara Raffo and Gregory Geiger (California)
Shane Donahue (California)
Shannon Koy (California)
Delivery Sequence
Erik sends to Jeremy
Jeremy sends to Sara and Gregory
Sara and Gregory send to Shane
Shane sends to Shannon
Shannon sends to Erik
PROGRESS GALLERY
Erik Purins, March 31, 2026
When I got the tube back, I found the scroll was much smaller. Someone had stitched two pieces of it, oriented now horizontally, together.
The orange line of stitching went right above what I thought of as a landscape of mountains and jungle tree tops and mist. The last left most portion of the mountains was a figure lying back, making eye contact.
I didn’t see the foil stars at first. I saw the foil taped to the back of the piece. Then I saw the star cutouts, revealing the foil.
There was a horizon reflecting a sky. There was a knit or crochet orb. There were thermal paper arrows pointing up.
I had to solve the curling of the scroll. I decided to wood glue the scroll to a piece of foam core and truncate it to fit. I kept the portrait so I had to trim the width on the right.
I liked the reveal of the stars, so I made the foam core a collage of its own, and marked the points of interest on the front where I could cut back layer if I wanted.
I loved the arrow shapes and the landscape, and something about the stars and the orbs suggested a planetscape. So I drew an arrow over Elsa from frozen and cut it out, and turned it into a space craft in the sky.
I liked the vertical repetition of the arrow so I took a roll of tape and cut several descending circles into the sky, and kept going into the landscape / reflection. This revealed kfc man and the form of a woman on a bed from Lodger comic book.
Recalling my team collabs, I started to draw a Pokemon into a circle, and made other marks and outlines as felt right.
I woke up one day realizing I needed to emphasize the stitch work; so I found some blue yarn and worked it in, and integrated a hanging string in the back.
I left the forms big; I could remove more but the piece was good enough, felt right.
March 30, 2026—Erik Purins’s completed collage has arrived at headquarters.
March 10, 2026—Jeremy Saum’s completed collage has arrived at headquarters.
March 7, 2026—Shane Donahue’s completed collage has arrived at headquarters.
March 4, 2026—Sara Raffo and Gregory Geiger’s completed collage has arrived at headquarters.
February 27, 2026—Shannon Koy’s completed collage has arrived at headquarters.
Erik Purins, January 19, 2026
Erik here with group 10 (backyard craft club)
I handed off originator Jeremy’s work to Jeremy, full circle.
Jeremy’s is full of owls. I added a creepy onlooker and re-enforced some of the trees and leaf patterns.
I handed off originators Gregory and Sara to Jeremy.
I added a suited up woman and moved the planet to her right side, and did some draw and paint overs with acrylic pens.
Shannon Koy, December 14, 2025
Jeremy’s Fake Mosaic Owl is adventurous, meeting many masqueraded, feathered friends. So many paths lie ahead.
Erik Purins, December 14, 2025
Shane’s piece had such wonderful geometry and texture surfaces in it.
I had a bunch of figurative work as input for this, so I cut out hard circles and hexagons from my source materials, added some paint over transitions, and added a backer rectangle to match the hologram board rectangle.
It’s less about the surfaces and materials now, which I have some regret for.
Shannon Koy, December 6, 2025
10C in transit to Eric
Burned, waxed, folded, punched, and more. I think you were right.
Erik Purins, November 9, 2025
Shannon’s waft directives were challenging for me, thinking about bad organic smells was straight forward, thinking about the other end was much harder for me; I took an extra week and still struggled. I inverted the orientation of the symmetry synthetic smells and composed my own spray bottle with a story for the left side. And went with stinky feet using a whirl of rainbow waves to illustrate the wafting.
Where did I start my own collage? Over 20 years back, my spouse and I brought home a pair of Chinese wall scrolls. We mounted them to bright orange paper backings and hung them from our first home in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood.
I had forgotten about them; but they moved home after home with us. I found the oldest photo I could find, and here it is in the corner of the mirror one Halloween night before we hit the town in our family costume in 2005.
That’s the basis of Jenga. A falling apart wall scroll.
Shannon Koy, October 16, 2025
Materials and textures leading the way in Shane’s collage, from denim to embroidery to brushstrokes. Adding spin, hologram, and thread paper.
Sara Raffo + Gregory Geiger, September 30, 2025
Shannon Koy, September 29, 2025
The first waft of a collage duo, on the way!
Gregory Geiger, September 23, 2025
Quick and loose…a collage gesture if you will. :-)
Jeremy Saum, September 14, 2025
Those who know me well will not be surprised that there are birds involved.
Shannon Koy, September 6, 2025
Backyard Craft Club: May the collaging begin!