“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
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READ: Five years in the making, Classification Crisis brings together decades of Ahlers’ work—politically charged zines, confessional poetry, and feminism-fuelled collages that have so far been overlooked by the wider art community. Now, the RAG’s walls are adorned with looseleaf pages taken from her zines and pink-paletted collages of magazine cut-outs and vintage photographs, along with the containers for her extensive archive of letters and scraps - Sorting Through the Collection of a Riot Grrrl Zine Artist - via Montecristo Magazine
READ: Doyle is known for her intricate, almost obsessive, works on paper that combine elements of printmaking in its various forms, from woodcuts to etching, with collage, painting and drawing. Inspired by her fascination with science and love of its documentation, from historical maps to images beamed from the Hubble Space Telescope, Doyle creates beautifully colored works on paper and on wood panels that inhabit the boundary between science fiction and reality - Exploring Inner Space - via Eugene Weekly
READ: "I was deleting sections and creating new patterns in their faces," he explains. Once he's devised multiple versions, he pieces everything together and arranges these elements into a pastiche of digital wonder – or what he describes as "iconographic digital collage" - Grant Gasser toys with AI technology to create digital collages reminiscent of the noughties - via Creative Boom
READ: I don’t know much about advertising but I knew they would grab the attention of people. The posters were these bold collages and very fun, but there was more on them than what met the eye. They weren’t just random photos, the images together made statements and made people think - In Conversation: Sergio Mayora - via Trope
READ: Javelin is Stevens’ return to solo songwriting, and several friends join him on the record, including the National’s Bryce Dessner on the track “Shit Talk.” He announced the record in August with “So You Are Tired,” following it with “Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” The album comes with a 48-page book of collages by Stevens (who also designed the record’s cover art) and related essays - Listen to Sufjan Stevens’ New Song “A Running Start” - via Pitchfork
READ: “It feels like coming full circle as I began in paper collage, moved to digital to help bring my giant cat creations to life, and am now turning them back into paper. I enjoy seeing my pieces (which are usually two-dimensional on a screen or piece of paper) in a more three-dimensional and tactile way.” - 30 Adorably Unsettling Art Pieces That Show Giant Cats Ruling The World, As Imagined By This Artist - via Bored Panda
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
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