Sloughing Off

Goodbye to the Year of the Snake

Detail from the artwork Man of Sorrows (c. 1480) by the Flemish artist Hans Memling, digitally edited by collage artist Robin Isely to include a green snake.

I wanted to say one more goodbye to the old year that has felt like being inside a snake. But first, school glue.

I never ate school glue. So far as I remember anyway. What I do remember is putting a…