collage of images on gelliprints, text in marker
"there is no other place than this place
no other body than this body"
from: Consolations - David Whyte (33 Pain)
square collage in shades of grey-purple and rust-brown, on the left a kind of pillar with a silver band around it and at the top a floating female figure in a swimming costume, in the centre above two wooden wheels that resemble eyes from which two long strings of tears roll (beads), on the top right a pink-and-blue animal, on the right another silver band, on the bottom right a primitive stone sculpture of a human figure with the text around it, in the centre a bird pecking at its own breast from which a tear drop emerges, on the bottom left a rust-brown dried flower
Whether you call it mixed media or collage: what I make is what the work is asking. Sometimes it asks for a lot of pictures, or for colorful motives, for a watercolor background or a gelli print, sometimes I use stencils or words. Sometimes a color is.. Read more…