“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Reid brought to his artwork a preoccupation with political issues, from the justice system to nuclear weapons. His bold graphic design referenced ransom notes, with cut-and-paste letters appearing to be snipped from newspapers, while his collage style lent a jumble of colours and forms to the covers of the Sex Pistol’s album Never Mind the Bollocks and single ‘Anarchy in the UK’ - In memoriam: Sex Pistols album artist Jamie Reid (1947 – 2023) - via Wallpaper
Look closely at Bonnie’s intricate collages and you will spot fishing net, crisp and chocolate wrappers, bits of tennis balls, and even toothbrushes. The 25-year-old artist collects her material on beach litter picks, cleans it and layers it on wood in a process which can take up to a year - I create stunning art collages - all from rubbish that washes up on local beaches - via Mirror
The art of collage is often characterized by frayed seams, revealed edges, and uneven surfaces, and can sometimes appear as a Frankensteinian concoction of substances. Through the combination of disparate elements and material mutations, the assembled work becomes something else. And when it’s combined with bureaucracy, it becomes something else altogether - Bureaucratic Collage: Ghosts in the System - via Art Institute Chicago
David Delruelle’s collages, made in collaboration with VSCO, illustrate rare phobias—including the fear of technology, the fear of clocks, and the fear of buttons—but they’ll feel familiar to those of us who’ve navigated any kind of anxiety disorder. For the project, he used old archival photographs 1950s and 1960s, the era of Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone, heightening the sense of paranoia and dread running throughout the image - Picture Anxiety Through the Lens of Five Photographers - via feature shot
The internet gives me the language I tell these stories in. I usually start with the narrative, and then I build out the reference material to illustrate the story, after which it evolves. The search algorithm is a huge part of how I find reference material for my collages. If I need a figure that looks like it’s climbing up something, I might search for a person getting on a horse. I’ll search for images of people doing activities that look like what I want to start building, the figure’s position, clothing, or historical references. This is all filtered through what the algorithm presents. Not the randomness of it, but more so the collective subconscious, this vocabulary that’s been built - Sophia Narrett by Colm Tóibín The artist describes to the novelist how she creates fantastical worlds of beauty, love, and desire through embroidery - via Bomb
PCC: The PCC team, like most of the rest of France, is taking a little break in August. Our Weekly Creative Challenges will continue as always but the Past Challenges section of our website won’t be updated until we’re back in September. The image prompt for next week is available to download here
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