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New Collage Series - Pop Icons

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New Collage Series - Pop Icons

I've started a new collage series exploring some topics I'm interested in like pop culture, retro futuristic optimism, religion, roadside attractions and adolescence. The themes and images come from the old noggin' topics I often consider and am attracted. The collages are done mostly in Photoshop with original photographs, scans and altered historic images - blended together to create some sort of mind map of the thoughts that have been jumbling around in my head over the past thirty years or so. Some certainly have been suppressed for sure during the more "serious" times in my life but at this moment I am feeling very free to let these images come out of my brain and into the public space.

The collages are generally black and white with a little muted colors splashed for interest. The images evoke a vintage clip art look that reminds one of lazy summer afternoons in the tree house with a stack of comic books.

If it were up to me, I think these images are best displayed in medium sizes - perhaps 8" by 10" and in groups of four or more. They collectively tell a story and are related in someway depending on the viewers memories.