{"id":1255,"date":"2013-01-12T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?page_id=1255"},"modified":"2017-05-21T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T20:53:29","slug":"gallery-2557-personal-drawing-and-collage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/galleries\/gallery-2557-personal-drawing-and-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery-2557: Personal Drawing and Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This gallery is a collection of drawings or collages that I’ve don<\/strong>e since 1998.
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Click image to view this gallery:<\/em>
\n[EasyGallery id=’Gallery-2557′]<\/p>\n

If I draw, it can be immediate, messy and expressive<\/strong>, like the manic scribbles of an angry child.
\nThat feels good.<\/p>\n

However, collage from found commercial images is my favourite method<\/strong>.
\nI like the idea of co-opting some art director’s vision, shredding it to bits, and putting the elements into a completely new context that suits my needs. I’ve learned that using “found images” evokes sub-conscious themes; archetypal symbols, dreams, or metaphors that are sitting underneath my skin, waiting to be re-used on paper. Some of the themes they evoke are inherent in the image, so really, at some level, I’m tapping into the collective unconscious that I share with that original art director or photographer. They just didn’t give me permission to so that, but so what…<\/p>\n

I have (so far) resisted using digital tech for my personal images, sticking with scissors, tape, glue, pen, pencil, and crayon. I have a large plastic storage box full of odd magazine pages, and piles of ripped out, cut up elements: hands, arms, faces, spines, textures, dark silhouettes, and various angels and monsters. Fashion magazines often provide a rich storehouse of raw material for my surrealist visual “riffs”.<\/p>\n

As I cut out bits of images and move them around on a page, a foreground\/background theme, setting, or figure may begin to emerge. Rarely have I ever sat down with a particular idea in mind beforehand – it comes from the process of exploration, play and chance.<\/p>\n

Creating a collage feels most personal when working by hand, directly applying paper to paper, tacking bits in place with tape, and then gluing them down into final locations. It feels like a little stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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