Collage - Robots/Future Technology themed booklet
Matt showed some collage artists and Anthony Zinonos was one of them who I had forgotten all about. He uses torn pieces of paper/fabric that become beaches and canyons. It's so simple and clever and shows how you can overcomplicate an image by trying to be too clever. I had some orange paper left over and used it in a similar way. I want to use colour in my collage because it can alter the texture and depth as well as adding a lot of personality and can act as a structure for the black and white imagery.
Found Images
Because I love collage and it's universal appeal I've been collecting old books which are fascinating and have beautiful photographs that can be re arranged and contextually manipulated.
Mad Scientist
Matt said making collage is like the process of a mad scientist experimenting to create a Frankenstein monster. I think I have a natural ability with collage arrangement and maybe this is because it is a medium that I believe will always be evolving and never fall out of fashion as anyone can try collage and nearly all results are at least funny or visually stimulating. At the other level they can be very profound and arrangements can raise questions for the audience that perhaps other media like drawing would struggle to ask as intently.
Collage forces you to twist reality
Jump into an alternate universe
Images sometimes decide for you where they belong in the composition
Is it humour we usually feel with collages or unease at the unfamiliar?
It brings the inner child out of you
Scale, context, meaning can all be shaped into infinite different arrangements
There is a reliance on gut instinct for the final arrangement
Adding one image forces the image as a whole into a new direction
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