52 Card Project 2021

I've decided to do the 52 card project again. I last did this in 2016, and it occurred to me today that there wasn't any reason I couldn't revisit the project.

What you do is that you use a deck of cards, coating each with a layer of gesso and then using them as canvases to make miniature collages, one for each week of the year. I gave each a one-word title last time, and I think I will do that again this time. I may do some as digital collages, but I will still then print them out and mount them on the cards. Edited to add: I seem to have fallen into doing entirely digital collages, and since I'm using transparency effects in so many cards, it doesn't make much sense to print. I don't own a printer good enough to make a print out that looks as good as they do on the screen.

I will post the cards as I do them each week in a table here. Clicking on the link in the title for each card will take you to the post about the individual card.

(Anyone want to do the project with me???)

( This is what the 52 Week Collage Project looks like so far )

52 Card Project 2021: Week 1: Betrayal

So here's the first card, which I created digitally.

The central image should be entirely familiar to anyone who has paid any attention to the news this week.

I have overlaid it with a text excerpt of a letter received this week from the Social Security office, informing me that I was not going to be getting the Social Security Survivor benefits I had applied for as Rob's widow, and I was told I was eligible for: I was just above the income threshold for receiving them. Since this represented about a third of the income I was expecting to receive until I had reached full retirement age, this really bites.

Betrayal



Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.