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.”

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