Right now I taking a break from the University of Iowa Special Collections and Archives. I have visited The Archives in the past with projects focusing on Artist's Books and Cookbooks from the 1950's. Currently I am looking at different collage works that the Archives have collected. All have been very interesting, and some very confusing. What I am focusing on is the construction and different techniques that artists use when creating collage works. I have felt many types of paper and have felt things that were pasted and painted over; each done for a specific reason with the hand of an artist. Some are neat and clean, while others are a little less neat with smudges.

What is amazing to me is that every mark or paste made by an artist is thought out long before the decision is made. I was looking at a JELLO book made of collage and each aspect of the book related to jello from cut out recipes and different boxes used to hold the jello.