Process | WIP Stuck & Studio Accidents

I've been stuck with this piece for months. Trying to figure out what's next. Aerosmith Toys in the Attic on wood. I've been referring to it as a work in progress, but in truth I was stuck. I liked the idea of taking the album art, lifted from its original cardboard, then embedding it into a piece--and I did that, but couldn't figure where to take it.In a recent hospital stay, with nothing to do but play on my phone, I came across an online archive from the US Patent Office. In it I found patents for old toys like Big Wheels, GI Joes, and Barbie. I filed the resource away in my Morgue File and figured I'd figure out something to do with the images later.This week is later.I found the Barbie patent, cleaned it up and enlarged it to 6" by roughly 18" and decided to see if I could work her into the Toys in the Attic piece by way of a transfer process. A process I'd never done before other than old skool transfers with copy paper when filling out a deposit slip and whatnot. The first stab…