Lynn Skordal

The Black Book (Thunder, Perfect Mind), Altered Book, 2013.

Black Book page spread 1. Page detail for work-in-progress altered book. Cut & paste paper collage, words from "Thunder, Perfect Mind," an ancient poem found in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi scrolls.

Black Book page spread 2.

Black Book page spread 3.

Black Book page spread 4.

Black Book page spread 5.

Black Book page spread 6.

Black Book page spread 7.

Logos. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper, watercolor pencils). Part of The Black Book project.

American Dolls.  Cut & paste collage (paper on book page). Part of The Black Book project.

Page detail 3. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of The Black Book project.

Mountain Girls. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of The Black Book project.

Madame Pilzblumen. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of The Black Book project.

Reverse Collage

Dark Rooms (Echoes). Cut & paste reverse collage (magazine pages)

Dark Rooms (Roots). Cut & paste reverse collage (magazine pages).

Dark Rooms (Cloudy). Cut & paste reverse collage (magazine pages).

Dark Rooms (Fragrant). Cut & paste reverse collage (magazine pages).

Homeless. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Doberman. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Spoonbill. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Work. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Postcards From The Edge.

Postcards from the Edge (Tirol). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of an on-going series using reproductions of old photochrom travel postcards.

Postcards from the Edge (Vesuvius). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of an on-going series using reproductions of old photochrom travel postcards.

Postcards from the Edge (Roman Baths). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of an on-going series using reproductions of old photochrom travel postcards.

Postcards from the Edge (Palazzo Vendramin). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of an on-going series using reproductions of old photochrom travel postcards.

Postcards from the Edge (Giant's Causeway). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of an on-going series using reproductions of old photochrom travel postcards.

Postcards from the Edge (Opium Smugglers). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Early Lessons (artist's book 2012)

1 There is where i want to go. "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

2 This is my home. "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

4 The Airplane! "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

10 Susan. "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

14 It is cold, Tom. "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

20 No! No! No! "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

22 Good by, Pony, Good by. "Early Lessons," a spiral-bound artist's book made from cuttings from vintage early reader books and photochrom postcard images. The book tells the story of the little family's strange trip abroad.

The Needle and The Sword

Band Page. Work in Progress: Additional pages from "The Needle and the Sword" project. Heat transfer image on vintage handkerchief, watercolor pencil, lace scraps.

Mr. President Page. Work in Progress: Additional pages from "The Needle and the Sword" project. Heat transfer image on vintage handkerchief, watercolor pencil, embroidery.

Miss Lucy Barnes Page. Work in Progress: Additional pages from "The Needle and the Sword" project. Heat transfer image on vintage handkerchief, watercolor pencil, embroidery.

We Declare Page. Work in Progress: embroidered vintage handkerchief, page for a book about the early women's rights struggle. Quote from the 1876 Declaration of Rights of Women written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others. Tentative title: "THE NEEDLE AND THE SWORD (The Struggle for Women's Rights in Twenty-Four Hankies)."

Flower Song Page. Work in Progress: fabric collage on vintage handkerchief, a page for a book about the early women's rights movement in America.Tentative title: "THE NEEDLE AND THE SWORD (The Struggle for Women's Rights in Twenty-Four Hankies)."

Buttons Page. Work in Progress: mixed media on vintage handkerchief, a page for a book about the early women's rights movement in America.Tentative title: "THE NEEDLE AND THE SWORD (The Struggle for Women's Rights in Twenty-Four Hankies)."

Bird Page. Work in Progress: fabric collage on vintage handkerchief, a page for a book about the early women's rights movement in America.Tentative title: "THE NEEDLE AND THE SWORD (The Struggle for Women's Rights in Twenty-Four Hankies)."

Antique Prints

Synchronized Swimming. Cut & paste collage (paper on antique print).

Zippy is Dead. Cut & paste collage (paper on print repro).

The Radical Clerical. Cut & paste collage (paper on print).

It Wasn't Clear What Happened Here. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper). Made for Kollage Kit weekly theme "black & white."

Creation Myth. traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

The Procession of the Worlds. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Into the Woods. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Bulganin and Krushchev view the annual juggling of Peasant Heads, 1956. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Marie Antoinette and the Bad Fairies. Cut & paste collage (paper on antique engraving).

Scientific Re-Illustration

Alien Spacesuits. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

The Daughters of Ernst Haeckel. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Stella Gets Her Groovy Horseshoe Crabs Back. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Old National Geographic cuttings.

Norwegian Brain Farmers. Traditional cut-and-paste paper collage.

Harvard Men Enrolled in the New Hunter-Gatherer Class. traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper).

Francis Was an Unpleasant Child Who Sulked When She Could Not Ride the Dragonflies.  Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper).

She Held His Hand as He Boarded an Orthoptere for the first time. Cut & paste collage (paper on reproduction print).

In Her Orbit. Cut & paste collage (paper on magazine page).

Vintage Powder

Come by later, we're having Fondue and Snake Kabobs. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of on-going Vintage Powder series.

Atomic Skis. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Ja, Villi, I Do Luff Your Stretch Pants. Cut & paste collage (paper on repro vintage ski poster).

Angels in America Series

Angels in America (Nº 9). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 8). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 7). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 6). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 5). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 4). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 3). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 2). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper), watercolor pencils. On-going "Angels in America" series.

Angels in America (Nº 1). Traditional cut-and-paste paper collage. On-going "Angels in America" series.

National Geo Pieces

Two Earlier Contestants Fell Victim To a Shark Attack. Cut & paste collage (old National Geographic cuttings).

She Could Not Save Herself. Cut & paste collage (paper on magazine page)..

You and Me, Sunday Driving. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper, old National Geographic cuttings). Made for Kollage Kit theme: Beatles' lyrics.

Evidence of Giants. Cut & paste collage (paper on National Geographic page).

At the Cosmos Cafe. Cut & paste collage (paper on National Geographic page).

Wingwalkers. Cut & paste collage (National Geographic scraps).

Modern Fever. Cut & paste collage (National Geographic pages, magazine cuttings).

Cabinet Cards

Cabinet Cards (Bat Masterson and the Gearheads). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet cards). Part on in-process artist's book.

Cabinet Cards (Louie Who Was Injured  in the War and Sister Fish). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet cards). Part on in-process book project.

Cabinet Cards (Two Librarians). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet cards). Part on in-process book project.

Cabinet Cards (Irene and Dookie). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet card). Part of on-going cabinet card series.

Cabinet Cards (Mrs, Burnham and Charlotte). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet card). Part of on-going cabinet card series.

Cabinet Cards (Uncle Willie and Reggie). Cut & paste collage (paper on vintage cabinet card). Part of on-going cabinet card series.

Man Kind

The Bridegroom. Traditional cut & paste paper collage. This collage was selected for exhibition in a recent exhibit entitled "Strange Glue/Collage at 100" at the Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, curated by Todd Bartel, Gallery Director.

The Widower. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

The Fetishist. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

The Anatomist. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

The Lepidopterist. Traditional cut & paste paper collage. This collage appears in the Nov/Dec issue of UTNE READER illustrating an excellent article called "The Heretic" by Tim Doody.

The Mandman. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

The Poet. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Sydney Mug Shots

Nigerian Topaz (Smith & Jones). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

The Demons of Alice Fisher. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Chinese Pants. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Memories of the Garden. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Chair Series

Chair Series (Pet Bird). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part of on-going "Chair Series."

Chair Series (Worship). traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper). On-going Chair Series.

Chair Series (Facing Forward). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper). On-going Chair Series. This collage appears in the Nov/Dec issue of UTNE READER illustrating an excellent article called "The Heretic" by Tim Doody.

Chair Series (Pierced by Beauty). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper). On-going Chair Series.

Chair Series (Paranoia). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper). On-going Chair Series.

Revelations Revised Series

Revelations (She Is Ours). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Revelations (Who Is the Horse and Who Is the Rider). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Revelations (Those People Hardened Their Hearts). Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Revelations (Jezebel). Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Revelations Revisited series.

Adventures of Hannelore

Hannelore's Garden. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Part on on-going Hannelore series.

Hannelore Makes Her Escape with the help of the Ladybird Bugs. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). Some more adventures for little Hannelore.

Hannelore's Quest. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

Hannelore and the Parliament of Owls. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper). The on-going adventures of plucky little Hannelore.

While They Waited for the Ice to Thaw, Hannelore photographed Rabbits. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

2010 & Earlier

Buffalo Bill's Defunct... Traditional cut & paste paper collage. From an E.E.Cummings poem.

Le Bat. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Memento Mori. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Black Tears. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper, spray paint).

Boho. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

And on the Fifht Day. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Anatomy III. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

"Under Vesuvius" (altered book 2010)

Vesuvius 2 (Frontpiece panorama).  Page detail from "Under Vesuvius" altered book project completed in 2011 (collaged pages).

Vesuvius 9 (Intro panorama). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

Vesuvius 17 (Mask pg 27). Page detail from "Under Vesuvius" altered book project completed in 2011 (collaged pages).

Vesuvius 14 (Snake pg 21). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

Vesuvius 15 (Rhino pg 22). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

Vesuvius 19 (Crow pg 51). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

Vesuvius 20 (Flying pg 61). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

Vesuvius 28 (Replica pg 112). Detail from "Under Vesuvius," an altered book completed in 2011 (collage, page cuts, ephemera).

and some more...

Spectacled Weaver Birds in Space. Cut & paste collage (National Geographic cuttings on catalog page).

Naked at the Edge. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Hvitserkur. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Stazione di Pest. Work-in-progress: cut & paste collage on book page.

Self Portrait with Bees. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Max. Cut & paste collage (magazine cuttings on magazine advert).

Alien Abduction. Cut & paste collage (sci fi book scraps, paper on book).

Robotics. Cut & paste collage (book and magazine cuttings on paper). For Kollage Kit swap.

Because I Don't Like to be Touched, That's Why. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Juliette of the Deep. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

Stories of Love. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper with re-arranged cuttings from "Mythology" by Hamilton, red thread).

There was a maiden with her sweetest words and looks, fine and familiar, then pure white. Within the hall were suitors, dull and dense, idly loafing and in a mood to make cruel fun. She was frightened and went down from her room to drive the suitors away by force, but how could she? One and another the wicked suitors, roistering, impudent, arose hard as iron and attacked her in their frenzy. She shouted with grief and dismay and screamed in terror but could not fly from them or push them away. It was a frightful ordeal. But strangely enough when the great heroes and fair women heard of the outrage they declared that she was strange and repellent to these men and was the cause of the trouble. It was only to be expected. She fled in a fit of furious anger, but of course she never forgot the truth of what had happened. Then years passed. In some way, we are not told how, she came back, hacking and destroying everything that came within her reach. She took deadly aim and slaughtered all of the sons and daughters of the wicked suitors. It was not frightening, it was butchery and the floor flowed with blood. She saw them die with a hard heart. Daylight was dawning, there was no sound on earth but hopeless weeping and the dreadful sound of cracking flames on the funeral pyre. She whispered those buried words –– “It is a great story now of beautiful fresh blood flowing, implacable vengeance and inevitable doom. The long story is ended. Only the red flame now lives.”

Try the Sardines! Cut & paste collage (paper on paper).

She -Devil. Cut & paste collage (paper on book page).

16 Ways page detail ( Chapeau de Oiseaux). Chapeau des oiseaux:

a flock of ideas building
loose nests in my mind.

From "16 Ways of Looking At a Blackbird," a OOAK collaged and paper-cut accordion style artist book with haiku.

Lost in Space. Cut & paste collage (paper on NASA photo).

Sister Morphine. Cut & paste collage (paper on paper) with chalk paint. For Kollage Kit weekly theme: Rolling Stones lyrics.

Precious Gems. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Eve. Traditional cut & paste paper collage.

Tattoo You. Traditional cut-and-paste collage (paper on paper).

 After retiring from the practice of law several years ago, Lynn Skordal returned to an early love--art. Usually she make small works on paper, and the humble art of collage is a favorite medium. She lives and works on an island in the middle of a lake, surrounded by a big city.



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