the absurd (Project Introduction/Blog Post 3)

untitled, 2019. magazine cut outs on paper.

i have always be intrigued by the absurd.

i humor the idea that human life IS absurd. 

“Collage is the cut, the tear, the rupture and the overlay of our contemporary culture. It is the hybrid language of urbanity—remixed, re-contextualized, and wholly built from the fragments of daily life.” -Pavel Zoubok

i want to explore this sort of absurdism through collage. this quote combined with the readings of Simulations and my past works in collage have inspired me to use collage as a medium to explore the surreal, reality and absurdity. i will be creating a digital portfolio of 5-8 collages that "mask and pervert a basic reality" (baudrillard 11). i think by using found images of things that already exist in our reality, but placing them in ways that cause us to question its reality as well as our own. there are signs of reality, things we have seen before but also an element of bizarre that i find very appealing.

i want to play with societal constructions as well as the content of my pieces, but i'm not entirely sure yet. want to go further with this idea of construction... 

timeline/workflow:  
april 24th- 1st collage complete
april 29th- 2nd collage complete
may 4th- 3rd collage complete
may 8th- 4th collage complete
may 13th- 5th collage complete
may 15th- digital portfolio online and uploaded

note: all these dates are subject to slight change, depending on if i want to spend more time on one collage, or finish early on another. the goal is to have 5-8 pieces complete by may 13th.

bibliography/inspo:
my inspirations for this project are Jesse Treese and Hannah Höch. i plan on researching other collage and absurdist artists as well. i want to explore collage as a medium more. 

stay tuned kids


Comments

  1. Tanner MacArthurApril 20, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    Sorry for the late comment. I think it would be really cool if you made collages that are entirely edited/cut/cropped/glued by you, just like you have in the past. But then also making a body of collages with all found objects/paper that you DONT mess with. No cutting at all. Just making assemblages of things that are found in nature or that other humans have touched. I guess now that I'm typing this I realize that not matter what you will be altering the objects, even if you just move them to a new location (which removes the original context a la Baudrillard pg. 17-19). I guess at the end of the day the artist's hand will always be there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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