Digital into Analog: Modern Collage
A series of digital collages that inspired analog paintings. Or, how to slow down.
Read More Digital into Analog: Modern CollageA series of digital collages that inspired analog paintings. Or, how to slow down.
Read More Digital into Analog: Modern CollageI’m excited to be designing with Opera Dell’Arte this summer and to get the creative juices running, I created a series of collage as a jumping off point. The show they are inspired by is Princess Maleine. The original play was by Maurice Maeterlinck, in a new production by Composer Whitney George and Librettist and […]
Read More By the light of a bloody moonSo I thought I’d play with the idea of collage and sound, after seeing a fantastic collage by David Michael Reyes, on instagram (see here for the post.) All in all, I think it needs to be animated somehow, but this is just the first stage, so we’ll see how it goes from here. […]
Read More SonicNYC, fabric on wood, 18″ by 24″, 2014 REJ, fabric on card, 18″ by 24″, 2015 When I first moved to NYC, I looked for a map. In London there’s the A to Z a handy small map book you can take everywhere. But that doesn’t exist in NYC, people just asking others which way […]
Read More On PsychogeographyI’ve become a little obsessed with kaleidoscopes recently, I guess with the New Year upon us, the idea of seeing things through a new filter is interesting to me. And the idea that by rotating the way we perceive things- however minute the turn, we can change how we see them. In this new political […]
Read More Kaleidoscope HeartsThe last few months have been really busy with work, and although it’s finally started to slow down, it’s also been really great in terms of forcing me to make my own creative pieces as an outlet. I got a little fixated on the Tarot cards. Niki De St Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Italy that […]
Read More Lucky Cards: creating tarot collageIt’s been a while, in fact 4 months since I’ve made any collages of my own, and so in a fit of creativity, I made 2 small collages in an old 50s history book, with doubles as a sketchbook, and forces me to interact with the existing text and images, giving context to both, whether […]
Read More Collagescape.“Riding Death in My Sleep” Today I checked out an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which was phenomenal, and so inspiring to see. Wangechi Mutu is a collage artist, working with fabric, beads, magazines- from fashion to pornography to medical journals, spray paint and glitter on mylar. It’s a fantastically broad and messy […]
Read More Collage Heroine: Mangechi Mutu at the Brooklyn MusuemThere is only Truth in the Dirt. I took a bath tonight, and bored and not having a magazine within arms-reach, I stared at my legs for a long time, weirdly transfixed, like you do at one of those magic eye paintings that I can never really do anyway. Not that I haven’t really looked […]
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