{"id":1268,"date":"2013-01-12T18:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2013-01-12T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T02:23:26","slug":"gallery-2557-personal-drawing-and-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/gallery-2557-personal-drawing-and-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery-2557: Personal Drawing and Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Here’s a link to a new gallery on this site – a collection of personal drawings or collages<\/a> that I\u2019ve done since 1998.<\/h3>\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\u2019s vision, shredding it to bits, and putting the elements into a completely new context that suits my needs. I\u2019ve learned that using \u201cfound images\u201d 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\u2019m tapping into the collective unconscious that I share with that original art director or photographer. They just didn\u2019t give me permission to so that, but so what\u2026<\/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 \u201criffs\u201d.<\/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 \u2013 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":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Here’s a link to a new gallery on this site – a collection of personal drawings or collages that I\u2019ve done since 1998. If I draw, it can be immediate, messy and expressive, like...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,9,17,16,20],"tags":[38,40],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","category-learning","category-process","category-psychology","category-visual","tag-art-2","tag-life-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}