Collages by Anais Nin, Jean Varda (Illustrator) 1964

Parts of Varda's collages were used by Sparrow Press as covers for this book.

There is a chapter on Varda and his daughter, Vagadu.

"Collages was inspired by seeing Varda work with his little bits of material. I began to think about the people that I knew in Los Angeles and they suddenly formed a pattern of dreamers. They were all absolutely possessed by some myth or some dream so I put them all together with others not form Los Angeles, like Nina de la Primavera who was a sort of Ophelia and a woman who fabulated. I put them all together and that formed a collage of dreamers who couldn't possibly talk to each other because each one was pursuing his own fantasy. So they were like little pieces in a collage. They never absolutely could meet each other, but each one was completely possessed by a different kind of fantasy. I had the Japanese woman, and Varda also was one of the characters, creating his own world. When I started I couldn't see any design or pattern or anything. But then I suddenly realized that the pattern and theme was a collage. (72-D)" -A Woman Speaks pg 215

"I wrote part of LSD experience in Collages..." (Anais Nin Diaries Vol 5 pg. 146)

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