As a perfectionist, my mind is constantly full of concepts and goals! My brain is a very active idea generator. Collage calms it. When it comes to bringing ideas to life, unless my project is 100% conceptualised, built and approved in my head, I won't go. Of course, life does not work this way. You need a first step and it is rarely perfect.
With collage I found a way to avoid goals.
I don't know what kind of images I'm going to find.
I have no idea where I want to go and suddenly, by assembling elements, magic happens and something pops up that requests no more action from me, that appears from nowhere, complete, existing on its own.
I've been inspired by architecture, lines, and street photography since an early age. With an architect as a father, his mother into fashion, and my other grandmother owner of a book store, precision and aesthetics have shaped my eye while books were guiding my imagination. I love shapes, lines, the feel of paper and the scent of glue.
Collage is a trip through the world of images. I chase them in my daily routine. Each step out of my house is a new opportunity to collect new materials that will either match some I found earlier or inspire me for new artwork.Interior design and fashion magazines, flyers, but also second hand books offer me their content that I store both in my cupboards and mind drawers until they speak to me for some unexpected reason.
I have no will to ask for any specific answer to my artwork but a smile or a crush.
I strongly believe so many talented collage artists exist but so few are known.
I wish for this art to be brought up to the front scene.
Here's my contribution, when I stop thinking.