ATELIER BINGO: BLUE FLORAL ABSTRACT for Wrap magazine. Handmade collage and screen print, 2014
Perhaps there is nothing quite so human as re-imagining the world as we wish it to be, whether to illustrate our hope and dreams or our aggression and fears. The work of art is a bridge between emotion, idea, and action, allowing us to manifest a vision of the innermost workings of the heart, mind, and soul that we may share with the sighted world so that they, too, may behold that which cannot be spoken with words but must be said in every language at the same time.
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The art of collage, a technique assembles different, disparate forms in order to create a new whole, dates back to the invention of paper in China around the second century B.C., reminding us that people have always possessed an innate desire to reshape reality to suit their desires. It found different forms over the years, but it wasn’t until 1912, when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque introduced it to their oil paintings, that collage gripped the public imagination with limitless possibility.
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YOKOLAND: LEAP INTO THE VOID, personal project. Handmade collage, 2006