“Leaving the gills and tails aside – for whatever embryos may do, they do not make art – consider the behaviour of small children under the age of five. They learn language effortlessly, as long as they are surrounded by people who speak to them; they sing and dance; they make visual images, and they have astonishingly early capacities to listen and to tell stories. In other words, they do everything artists do, the only difference being that most of them do not carry on with these activities professionally as adults, though virtually all continue to participate in music, in visual art, and in storytelling in some way. Every religion we know anything about contains these elements. The arts are not something separate from us, to be taken up and discarded at will: they seem to be built-in. We’re hard-wired for them, you might say. As others have observed, art is not opposed to nature; for human beings, art is our nature. It is woven into our very being.”
— Margaret Atwood
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WORKSHOP: Don’t forget this month’s art-as-therapy online workshop in collaboration with Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab happening this Sunday. It’s as always free to attend. All information below…
READ: There’s something about the sum total of all the images, and that’s what a movie is—grouping together these images and having an overall feeling. It helps the team working on it, too. I’m not a great photographer, but I like it when I get my pictures back and I can lay them out and make a collage or a book. I enjoy the layout part, so maybe it relates to my filmmaking—getting a feeling from the totality of all the images, as opposed to just one image telling the whole story - Sofia Coppola on the Photographs that Inspired Her Films - via aperture
READ: US artist and photographer Jack Pierson uses a mish-mash of materials and methods in work that encompasses everything from collage and painting to photography and sculpture - Jack Pierson’s photographs and sculptures go on show in New York - via Wallpaper
READ: Juxtaposing intimate self-portraits with medical scans, collages and images of deformed vegetables, Mayumi Suzuki explores her experience of fertility treatment—an issue rarely discussed in Japanese society - HOJO - via lens culture
EXHIBITION: The Northwest Collage Society's fall show, Edmonds Waterfront Center Squared, features 60+ collage artworks from its diverse members. All collages for this show are on 12"x12" cradle board, with an open theme that allowed for individual artistry to shine through. More info here
Show dates: October 9, 2023 to January 2, 2024
Location: Edmonds Waterfront Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Box 717, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA
Open hours: M-F, 8am-5pm
Artists' reception: October 14, 2023, 10am
EXHIBITION: upcoming collage exhibition by Laboratorio de Collage de Madrid, more info here
PCC: 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!
PCC: 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
If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com