WORDS TO LIVE BY
“When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable, people who are content, they don't create art.”
― Jodi Picoult
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‘Collage is such an intricate means of discovery and exploration of all my ideas,’ she says. ‘It’s a way to learn and unlearn within my own process, and a way to anchor and make sense of my compositions. I enjoy rebuilding and the essential peeling back of layers to get to the core of my ideas. Collage does this for me.’ - Artist Mickalene Thomas wrestles with notions of Black beauty, female empowerment and love - via Wallpaper
American artist Joanne Leonard’s photo-collage series Journal of a Miscarriage is a talisman for our post-Roe times. Made in 1973, the same year as the landmark United States Supreme Court decision, its treatment of the messy unpredictability of pregnancy models resistance to the systemic erasure of women’s experiences. - The Miscarriage Collages That Were Too Much for the Art World - via Hyperallergic
“All of the elements in my collages are hand drawn besides the photos,” she tells us, “it’s all layers upon layers of textures and images I’ve drawn.” When looking through her work, you feel as though every piece is a reminder: Carly Jean is imprinted on the image and in our minds. But there is also this presence of character or caricature; a silhouetted outline of her head and shoulders, her name repeated in different stamp or like lettering from vintage packaging. - Carly Jean Andrews’ collage self-portraits are like an archive of 80s magazine covers - via It’s Nice That
In the summer of 2022, Pinterest quietly launched a new iOS app called Shuffles that allowed people to put together collages using photos and image cutouts from its website. The app took off with Gen Z users, and the functionality later became integrated into Pinterest itself. Now the company says its collage feature, which is powered by AI and computer vision technologies, is seeing three times the engagement of its traditional Pins. - Pinterest says its AI-powered collages are now more engaging than Pins - via Tech Crunch
In 2010, AnOther collaborated with Le Labo on a fragrance that juxtaposed clean architectural lines with sensual ambroxyde to addictive effect. Here, artist Katrien De Blauwer celebrates the intoxicating power of the scent in a series of collages. - Katrien De Blauwer Interprets Le Labo’s Musk in a Series of Collages - via An Other
Cheeky Hip-Hop Collages by Mason London - via Moss and Fog
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A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2024 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
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