In collage, pieces of ordinary life are taken out of context and reassembled in combination with other things to create a new context, and through that a new meaning. Ambiguity of time and place and relationship can be found through this combination of unrelated objects or images.<\/p>\n
In January of 2007 I took out my boxes of bits and pieces of paper, labels, old photographs, match boxes, old postcards, cut out puppets, things I have been collecting for decades. I\u00a0spread them across the dining room table and set to work. Using a scanner\/printer that can make archival prints I cloned some of the elements from my collection and worked on several collages at the same time, using some of the same pieces multiple times, creating a series, and working with variations on a theme.\u00a0In a sense, the collages are more a visual stream of conscious, an immediate response to color, form, image and context, than a paintings can be,\u00a0purely by virtue of the technique. My paintings are taking longer and longer to finish, anywhere from two to six months, sometimes even longer, and if I want to change something in a painting it requires many layers of repainting. The elements that I am using in the collages are much the same as the elements in my paintings, the difference being that I can collect them and combine them rather than having to paint each part from start to finish, so that the transformation is more immediate.\u00a0I like the fluidity of evolving images that can emerge and change within a day instead of taking weeks or months to metamorphose. I tend to leave them in this state of movement for as long as possible, at times for weeks, enjoying the play of the images as I make minute adjustments. Then when I feel the time is right, I glue them down and start again.<\/p>\n
The current price for a collage is Euro 500, unframed.\u00a0I have not priced them according to size.<\/p>\n