March 31, 2014
If anyone in the world actually follows this blog I
apologize for not posting for a while.
The work posted today was born out of a desire to begin to
work more 3-dimensionally with the collage process. I made the pieces as if I was constructing
mixed-media sculptural wall pieces and simply used a drop shadow with each
piece to give it the look of a discreet object or stretched canvas. It’s a simple effect but one that allowed me
to imagine what 3-D collage installations could look like. I want to build actual (not virtual) 3-D
collages something like constructivist reliefs, as well as large 3-D
installations made from printing the separate layers of a collage on mylar and
other transparent materials and then reconstructed.
The weekend that I made these collages, I had suddenly taken
the 3-D idea to heart and made a number of drawings in my sketchbook. I tried the same process digitally and, of
course, had to use what I could find digitally so these collages differ
significantly from my drawn ideas. I was
intrigued with the idea that perhaps a 3-D collage could act as a locus of
memory, where each fragment of the collage is a distillation of a place or
event and the juxtaposition of the fragments could coalesce in the viewer’s
mind as a ‘moment’ of memory or ‘trigger’ a sense of memory or déjà vu.
I was thinking about creating collages as ‘sites’ where the
juxtaposition or collision of the elements could ‘trigger’ a sense of past
memories of events. As memories are
often triggered by different senses, I thought the pieces should have audio,
some moving pictures (the waterfall on the left in Collage 129), neon sign
elements, and even wondered about using an atomizer to spray the occasional
scent.
Wishful thinking, I suppose, and these examples are probably
not the best examples of work that ‘triggers’ memories.
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| Digital Collage 123 |
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| Digital Collage 124 |
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| Digital Collage 125 |
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| Digital Collage 126 |
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| Digital Collage 127 |
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| Digital Collage 128 |
