"Difficult Dessert-Delivery Service"

Here’s the collaboration between E, Ass't Man (AM), and me, so far— a record of its stages.

 

1. BELOW: E got the board started. 
Here she is looking like the cartoon lady, bottom right.

When Asst Man got the board, he said to me, "What am I going to do with this?"

I suggested jellyfish.

2. BELOW, AM's additions:
Two photos of the back of a woman's head; 
two cowboy silhouettes;
and a policeman and a family:

The back of a woman's head... Twice! I too wondered, What am I going to do with this?

But that's the challenge of collaboration.

I was going to try to work in jellyfish myself, but instead went with. . .

3. Difficult Dessert-Delivery

(Em had asked for a prompt, and I'd suggested 'People Living Dangerously'.
And she'd made me a birthday collage with desserts this spring.
So this fits.)

Working with foreign objects is supposed to push you into creative problem solving--and it did. I'm especially proud of having incorporated the woman's head on the right into a jet plane--I seriously considered removing that photo altogether.

Close Ups

The individual sections probably work better than the piece as a whole.

The acrobat hanging from the plane to put a candle in (or to scoop up some of) the cake is my favorite.

 

BELOW: A spaceship is a bit of a cheat--an expected deus-ex-machina,
but that's okay: it's fun!

We didn't set any rules. We could call this one done, or it could make another go-round. I sent photos  and said if anyone wants to swap, it's ready.