My dead bird made it into a Collage Collective publication!

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

Yesterday morning (Dec 31st) I realized one of my digital collages made it to the 2017 Annual Publication from Collage Collective Co.

The book features 50 collage artists from all over the world, and mine is on page 38!

The piece featured is called Useless Fatalism, phrase that comes from a very deep hypnotizing song by Gustavo Cerati called "Fantasma (Ghost)" (link at the end of this post).

My piece shows a dead bird which had fallen from the sky after being abducted and had been dropped and left to die in a solitary landscape. Flies and moths are attracted by its death. I combined photography and scans from real paper collages I had made in the past, with digital photography of mine.

This piece has been one of the saddest I've ever made because I was deeply sad when I made it. So, to see it featured alongside such talented work really made me remember that beauty can arise from painful experiences.

To learn that my collage made it to the publication uplifted me and it helped end this crazy, surreal year on a positive note :-)

You can preview the book here, it's worth the visit just to see all the rest of the works which are remarkably creative.
http://www.blurb.com/books/8469637-collage-collective-co-annual-2017/7401714/d72e9f802b7da201d1933592977f67e1dddb4881

If you want to listen to the song that inspired the title, visit:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1cPsgLpGljdfYHpR1VHXOw

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Proud of you! So proud that I'll buy you an gyro

Haja I hadn’t seen this!

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