THE WEEKENDER 52 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
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“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
― James Baldwin
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Marian explains that because every piece must be pressed tightly against UV plexiglass, it is difficult to use thick stems even though she loves them. Some materials are simply too brittle to mount. She is certainly not a purist, and her collages would not be presented in a botany class for examination. “I’ll take a stem from a fiddlehead fern, a leaf from some tree in China that I can’t pronounce, and petals from a lily and put them together.” - Marian McEvoy, Botanical Dreamer - via Flower
In order to create her richly textured works, Akunyili Crosby incorporates collage and photo-montage using photographs she purchases when visiting Nigeria, as well as clippings from magazines and downloaded images found over the course of many hours trawling the internet (in an interview with Artnet in 2017 she admitted that this process can often take days). - What You Need to Know About Photomontagist and Painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby - via artnet
As the foundation of the project, an art workshop with school students in the area was held. The brief for the workshop asked the students to reflect upon the built environment of Bonteheuwel. Colorful shapes representing the architectural elements of the area formed collages showing the students' experience of their home. The collages were directly referenced in the design of artwork for the security screen of the library in the square and floor artworks placed within the landscaping of the overall project. The workshop was considered as a public artwork in itself, an artistic and educational performance. - Present Shapes, Bonteheuwel Freedom Square Landscape Art Intervention / Lorenzo Nassimbeni Conceptual Architect - via arch daily
Nobody owns collage comics. So like if you see someone else doing it, you should do it because you can do it in your own way. Like you said with mixed media, like it's so hard to copy somebody. You have to make it with your hands. You have to source the photos yourself. So it's never going to look the same. Anybody can do it. So when you ask “what kind of experimentation would you like to see more of”, I want to see younger people just make weird shit so that they don't have to be like, “oh, but I'm not good at this. Oh, but I'm not good at that”. I'm not saying it's like a total substitute for learning. But if it helps them get the job done, I think we will start to see a very interesting like, quote unquote, trend emerge. And I really hope that more people can do that. - “Make a Thing, Make it Now” Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation - via The Comics Journal
“I wanted to create a world people would go into,” Slinger said. “The Vision Pro was a way of approaching that with a different collage technology to offer an immersive experience beyond the physical space. This could be something that people could experience in their own homes, and could experience for many years, not just at the one time that it occurred.” - At 77, Feminist Photographer Penny Slinger Wants Augmented Reality to Catch Up With Her - via artnet
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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 2025 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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