These 10 collages, below, are from a Summer 2016 visit to Ireland.
I like to make collages as a way to remember things – experiences, places,
exhibitions, journeys. As a complement to photographs and drawings, these
collages capture the frenzy of travel, and the multi-faceted aspect of
unscripted and unpredictable experiences over time. These collages are done in
a watercolor sketchbook. They are about 4" x 6" on 5 1/8" x 8
1/8" pages.
Here is a great description of collage by the late Swiss-born
architect and educator Bernhard Hoesli: “First of all we must be clear that by
collage one understands, of course, a picture, a type of painting, an object.
However, one can also say that this object is the result of a process, a
particular kind of approach to shapes, colors and, typically, for collage,
scrap paper. So a collage is not only meant as an object, something made, a
result, but what is perhaps far more interesting: a process. Moreover, that
behind this way of doing something which as a result then leads to a collage,
the collage could be meant as an attitude of mind.”
(http://www.cooper.edu/architecture/events/opening-reception-bernhard-hoesli-collages)
