I found myself responding to an email tonight about my collages.  I started off on this vent about how I feel that if people know which of my collages are digital and which are cut + paste they will see them differently.

Some of my collages are cut + paste, and others are digital.  I strive very hard to make sure that people, for the most part, can not tell which is which.  I feel that if I point out which ones are the digital collages, people will look at them differently, diminishing.  I feel that when people ask if it is digital or not, if I say digital they will not like it, will not think that it is as worthy as a cut + paste .  A digital collage still takes me hours sometimes, to make things the way I want them, and I never use any special effects.  Just piecing the pieces of vintage paper together with my mouse rather than glue.  Does that make sense?  I just do not want people to say "oh, that's easy, anyone can do it in Photoshop" because it is more than that!  

I go through phases where I prefer one type of collaging over the other...  right now it is digital.  But then I start to miss the smell and feel of the glue and I am back, hooked on cut + paste.  What do you think?  Does it make a piece of mine less good if you knew it was digital?  Is digital collage diminishing?  Am I not really good at collage if I make a digital collage?  Or am I just crazy?

P.S.  I updated my links page - a new look - check it out here and let me know what you think!