Waterfalls

My latest collages “Landscapes from the Imagination” are the cut and tear that creates an overlay, a hybrid art form, remixed, re-contextualized and built from the fragments of daily life that appear in printed matter, nothing is what it seems. I use 1960’s women’s magazines as my material source because this was the beginning of colour in periodicals and magazines. The paper is uncoated and the print quality poor by today’s standards making it easy to tear creating soft deckled edges, it also takes ink and paint so the images can be worked over and highlighted with drawn marks. The matt finish gives the finished work a softer quality than would be the case if I used current glossy magazines. Some of the papers used have relevance to the image, others don’t. Fast food becomes landscape; the outfits in fashion shoots suggest ploughed fields or flora and scouring pads become gravel paths while an egg yolk can light up a sky, the list is endless. The collages come together with teasing little details; my mind can’t help but wander, even when trying to focus on one thing. Some of the pieces are deliberate, but in most cases I am trusting randomness to help build a final image that has not been planned. My collages are a form of recycling nature’s trees becomes paper that becomes magazines with printed images of nature along with consumerist products such as food, fashion and home wares. I cut, tear and reassemble these images to create landscapes depicting the trees that started the whole process. .