For Recurring Concepts in Art, Joelle and I are taking my Instacollages and remaking them without technology. The process of deconstructing my original project has forced me several times over to reflect on the motivations and process that led to Instacollage.
Joelle found this great quote which sums up collage and juxtaposition quite nicely:
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.” Johann Goethe
One of the things you learn as photographer is that there is a process that happens by which we become familiar with our surroundings to the point we stop “seeing.”
I am interested in exploring how much agency we have over our lives, how much free will to change the course of things and ourselves. In the space where I practice “seeing”, I feel there is the possibility for change and growth.
By initiating rules for the order of how work is created, I am able to explore creatively within limitations. I believe I can create very beautiful work with very little means.
In my Instacollages, time, space, and memory collapse, the resulting collages blur the line between the past, the present and the future. Moments in time become connected.
After presenting Instacollage to our class a few weeks ago, Rosalie told me she really liked my Instacollages and that I should revisit the project, which I have neglected since December. I have some new additions to add to the mix for 2014, but am realizing I need to be out taking more photographs and exploring New York.
While I would like to write new Instacollage algorithm to combine the images using different patterns, part of me also feels done with this project, at least in it’s current form, for now.
