Collage assignment #1 - 'March of Progress'

I wanted to try to do a collage study using my small collection of vintage matchbooks, matchboxes, and cinderella stamps. The rawness and crudeness of some of these halftone images really appeal to me. When you enlarge those images, you get a feel for the visual process of the creation of those images. I also enjoy a lot of 'older' things, and both the funkiness of the images, as well as how 'dated' some of these things appear, create a feeling of a popular culture gone by, and history. The original Egyptian background with the sand, sphinx, and pyramids, came from a Danish cinderella stamp (it was an advertisement for some form of margarine). I extended it and made it wider partly because I wanted to include more elements, and partly because I wanted the other elements to dominate the Egyptian landscape. I was trying to convey a feeling of 'modern culture' traditionally not always having respect for older culture. An alternate title is 'Club Med - 1947'.