Collage is always about the ingredients. They will provide the stimulus, the catalyst, the “muse,” if you will, that leads to an unexpected next step. They can provide a clue to follow, the suggestion of continuity, and sometimes one piece of paper is the puzzle solution that you never saw coming. Respond to ingredients intuitively, and learn to recognize a spontaneity that isn’t driven by thoughts or feelings. What seems right for the context? It is a sense that an element does or does not “belong,” whether it is a harmonious similarity or an energetic contrast.
A Tolerable Complexity
collage experiment by J A Dixon
6.875 x 9 inches
