Digital Collage

 

 No One, [Freud] announced, lives in the real world. We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded of bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations. (WGalin47)

 

Making collages is a process I have used over the years as a playful way of creating images and space to create ideas as support for my prints. I use a diversity of materials, including recycling old wallpapers and proof prints. I find by juxtaposing different shapes, materials and forms it increases the possibilities of interpretation.

I have been looking at the work of Richard Hamilton and Robert Rauschenberg for their interesting works made from using found objects and combining photography and printmaking.

I find also the work of Jim Stezaker fascinating for his collaborations of photomontage and his interest in the idea of the found image, also In his more recent work he was been investigating symmetry of found images and creating collages from his portraits and landscape composites (craig16)

He has said that montage is a form of collage done by rearranging sections of film. It is also similar to copy and pasting which is something that everybody does. (Stezaker)

I am interested in investigating the possibilities of collaborating collages with the moving image. As I have talked about previously in ‘Digital turbulence” It is important to be that my work sustains an integrity that keeps a grip on the traditonal and partners it with new digital technologies.

 

                                   Works cited

   Galin, W, Collage,Assembling Contemporary art

                  

                      Black dog, London, 2008,print

 

 Craig,Blanche Collage,Assembling Contemporary art

                    

                      Black dog, London, 2008,print

 

Stezaker,Jim, Collage,Assembling Contemporary art

                    

                      Black dog, London, 2008,print