“I feel that collage is the best tool for an artist nowadays to visualize in 2 dimensions the message that he wants to convey to the viewer. It’s a composition of images and we live at the age of images; we communicate through them and our brain is adapting in order to decode faster the symbolism behind them. Through technology we have access to unlimited images, old or new, rare or popular, distant or very close, along with the tools to create detailed compositions in a digital or analogue form. But collage is also the snapshot of a dream. It operates beyond time and space but is still linked to current events. Size and color serve the optimal transmission of the message and not the realistic attribution of the artwork. As an artistic expression, collage uses the primordial and universal language of symbolism that knows no borders and inequalities. It’s direct, fast and relies more on the artist’s sensitivity, judgment and aesthetic and less on the complicated techniques of expression found in the traditional aspects of fine arts. A collage artist can operate on a mental level and with simple tools compose and reshape fragments of reality in order to create a mosaic of images totally dedicated to the message of his artwork.
The true value of collage is that it has the ability to train our thinking skills in a way that no other form of art can and ever will. To be a great collage artist means that, above all, you are a great thinker. And you must, because 80 percent of the artistic process takes place in your mind. A thinker who is sensitive enough to judge what is important and what is not, a seeker of what is unique, rare and different, a composer who gives a sense of unity to all these diverse elements and finally an artist that gives birth to this mental process.”
