The prophet

The prophet

Here are two versions of the same collaged image.  This work is a combination of a section of a Daniel Richter painting ( photographed at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin) and a detail of Max Ernst from the MIA.  These were taken many years apart, then printed and added to the vast pile of fotos sitting in my apartment.  Periodically I unpack this pile and attempt to combine them in interesting ways.  These two images landed on top of each other and clicked. 
I'm drawn to figures in a landscape... really figures in a suggested and dream like landscape.  For me it makes the work more real, imbeds more of a context into the work, heightens any tension in the underlying images.


The process I use for collaging works:  Find a good match then cut the images and glue.

The prophet

Prophet w/added distortion

I guess I could digitally edit however I like the physical/tactile act of cutting them as well as the options/freedom I have to find what I want to be the edge of the foreground image.  After everything is glued; scan it back into a single digital image.  Once this is done I can rework the collage to create other versions.  The first image is the original, the second with added distortion and detail.