I am working on my second ArtTag piece on the subject of Patterns. Must confess I drew a blank on this topic. The first piece was a groping in the dark piece and I hope Miriam will forgive me for the failed piece. Received an interesting piece from Harriett, which helped in the right direction.
This is as far as I've gotten so far: painted a dozen index cards in black acrylic. Affixed images of cigarette boxes on one side. On the other side, mouth images. Applied a coat of gloss medium to mouth image side to marry the cutouts to the index cards. Rubbed out air bubbles. The next step is smoke and cigarettes, which is where I am likely to make a mistake. This is one reason I am protecting the image layer with medium first. I am going to bring my WIP to Howard Munson's book arts salon. Thinking of pulling all together in a book structure of some sort.

I used India Ink to draw on transparency. The black silhouette totally transforms the original photos of women in kimono.

I asked Ben Needham to professionally photograph my piece for HIdden Cities. We decided to use the concrete floor of the Project Gallery for the background. The first shot was a neat  arrangement.  The lighting above created a wonderful shimmer on the waxed paper, which was unexpected. The second shot tells a better story, although the effect of the translucent shimmer is lost. 

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I've been thinking about the piece to submit to Hidden Cities, where we are challenged to depict our secret "city." I decided to explore the life of the "shoe people," whose invisible city I grew up in. These shoes are made of waxed paper and injet photos on vellum, a fragile, translucent depiction of simple flats.  I made as many as I could with the paper at hand and piled the shoes up in a heap.