paper-thin pantagruel

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme:"Babies!"

Pantagruel (pahn-TAH-groo-ELL) is a baby giant—son of Gargantua, also a giant—in the tales of François Rabelais.

The postcard image of crying babies is from a weird little book, Babylon: Surreal Babies. (Check out the cover image.) These baby postcards, says editor James Birch, "had a great influence on many artists in the 1920s and 30s, and were collected by Paul Éluard, Andre Bréton, Salvador Dali, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray."