With collage a tradition is well established,
Dating as far back as the invention of paper.
The technique grew when calligraphers in Japan
Began gluing paper to the surface of their poems.

On 6 Sept. 1954, Le Figaro printed the word décollage,
Which was used to describe the ‘take-off crash’ of a plane.
Adapted at a known point to the stage, the use was then
Applied to the advent of our modern towering billboard ad.

Here I switch from verse, because I have left behind my trusted source. Early in our visits to Spoleto, I was drawn to a half-formed and as yet unexpressed idea of “art in the making.” Looking back to my iPad, I should be able to recover from the archive the origin of a photographic interest. The way I recall it, though, the inspiration hit me full force on our first shopping spree in Foligno. Outside the Information Center, on a faded chalk board, what looked like a torn poster stood waiting to be seen. For that reason, if no other, I enter into the rotation the first of this year’s photo crop: