Synthesis

Judith Ide.

I am drawn to the spontaneity of collage - the cutting, tearing, gluing of diverse material and the arrangement of the selected pieces into unique pieces of art. Allowing the shapes, colors and textures to inform placement on the page yields unique visual narratives, some whimsical images and some surreal narratives with unexpected subtexts. My process is simple. I don’t pre-plan a collage. Rather, I scan print magazines or newspapers looking for realistic images that can be deconstructed to form the central focus of the collage. Once found, I ruff cut around the image and then look for images, or shapes with analogous colors, textures and patterns to cut or tear into organic or geometric shapes that complement the central piece. I move these pieces around the base paper until the disparate pieces fall into place, forming a cohesive whole.