a bright, vibrant paper collage piece combining type with visuals. it compares a beautiful flock of illustrated fairytale butterflies with a troupe of young Indian dancers.
an imaginary landscape, created by cut and torn layers of gorgeous vintage paper.
“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”
― Anaïs Nin
an antique anatomical ribcage, growing leaves and butterflies... take time to go outside to breathe. the second piece from the ‘symbiosis’ amsterdam exhibition project.
a gorgeous temple, a sacred guardian. this combination of masculine and feminine elements is a remix of Egyptian, Chinese and North African art styles.
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architecture, art history, collage, desert, diaspora
a golden temple; a gold-dusted temple guardian. collage piece featuring a beautifully painted 19th-century portrait of a young Egyptian woman by orientalist artist, Franz Xaver Kosler.
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19th century, arabic, butterflies, cairo, collage
“you don’t fit into my imagination anymore, it’s an idealized botanical painting, romantic and narrow like a dollhouse, cramped but exquisite, exotic leaves twisting seductively in the morning light, tiny porcelain cups filled with black tea and cream, flocked wallpaper covered in tropical flowers and songbirds in the bathroom, guitars and amps in the attic...”
— Heather Havrilesky
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african, black woman, cassette, cassette tape, collage
a beautiful, layered collage art piece to celebrate samhain, halloween, and the autumn equinox – when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest.
a little abstract analog collage ‘journey’ through colour and texture, sea and sky, life — and death. 💙 obsessed with the little folk-art-style element at the centre of this piece!
‘the sea is lovely, dark and deep.’
a combination of handcrafted type, antique paintings, and a cutout from ukiyo-e Hokusai classic, ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa.’
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blue, collage, conceptual, contemporary, fine art
its time for a change in seasons, and the blue skies, fruits and flowers have arrived! a gorgeous cutout portrait collage effect, with dreams of the summer winds to keep us content.
a vintage map of the heavens overlays a view of urban lights from some of earth's most populated cities, viewed from space. a star-shaped sacred geometric shape sits in the centre, with polaris - the north star - at it's core.
“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.”⠀
― Virginia Woolf
beauty on the outside, fierce on the inside. a lovely remix of neo-classical elements with a beautiful modern winter landscape, together with a touch of art nouveau.
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art nouveau, beautiful, classical, clouds, collage
ornamental collage art revival piece, focused on Grimaud's vintage ‘Le Tarot Astrologique’ card for Aquarius – the beloved eleventh sign of the zodiac.