Collage artists often work according to certain ideas that have to do
with exploiting found material. The vast glut of paper materials
generated over the last 100 years not only provides a glimpse into the
history of the recent past but the ephemera collected often reveals a
uniquely private history whose authenticity and genuineness is highly
prized. The subtle patinas gathered over the years by these surfaces add
a great deal to the sensual quality of the collage works generated from
them. The hunt for materials is a big part of a collage artist’s
activity and these materials, to a great degree, determine the nature of
the artist’s work and in my case, I welcome the stimulus that becomes
the impetus for new methods of construction and new compositional ideas.
Most often, in years past, I have focused on book sized papers found in
second hand shops, flea markets and antique stores from Paris, Texas to
Paris France. Recently, however, I have taken an interest in street
posters and roadside billboards and the large typographic shapes that
they contain in a quest to move from the small intimate scale I have
been accustomed to toward a comparatively larger scale of work that
might allow me to work on canvas and panel supports without losing the
attention to detail. I think of these works as a sort of visual or
concrete poetry albeit a nonobjective one whose interest is not in being
tied to literary meaning but a meaning of a purely visual nature. --
“Man is an apparatus through which the Divine may contemplate Itself.”
Cecil Touchon
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