monsters

My Weepies-inspired monster collage.

varying degrees of me

Okay so I fibbed. One of my fusion subjects was found on Facebook, not Google Image. I just had to use this picture of my rez-mate because we fit so perfectly together. Even our glasses match up. Do we have the same nose?

Yoan

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me

I just had to write down this conversation before I forgot

I got a drunken phone call today from Trent Argyle. He told me that he had an intellectual intervention. I'm not sure what that means but it apparently involved my "mind-blowing" blog. Said mind-blowingness inspired him artistically and evoked images of pigeons duct taped to [ARTISTIC IDEAS CENSORED FOR ANTICIPATED COPYRIGHT PURPOSES]. He was so intimidated (his word, not mine) that he had to stay away from my blog lest it haunt his emotions. I personally don't see what's so intimidating about figures made of computer keys but I will show you something I made for a collage class that I find slightly haunting. 

Let's acknowledge first that the instructor had a very broad notion of "collage." Also, he loved this piece, though he hated my others. The piece was this: 9 photoshopped images, overlapping my own face with pictures of people found on Google Image, printed and displayed side by side on the wall as a collection of portraits. Each image contains two different faces: mine and my other. Though both individuals are clearly seen within a single image, there is a new, third entity - the fusion of the parts. The mechanics of this fusion are instantly transparent to the viewer. And finally, all 9 images viewed together can be seen as my integration into a community of faces. I am you, you are me, we are all each other. Trent, are you still conscious? Here are 5 of them.

Collage

I created this Arctic fantasy landscape for a Works on Paper class led by Shirley Wiitasalo a few years ago and I've been trying to live up to it ever since. It's one of my favourite things I've ever made and I think it's kind of epic. I spent countless hours on paper selection and composition. I've been trying to use cut paper to create things again but they always end up looking like rough sketches. See below.

Maybe an epic composition just requires more planning. Any ideas? 

I also made this clever collage out of a Monet reproduction and a photo of Toronto I took. I have a bunch of Monet pictures so I'm thinking of cutting them up and making something new.