Collage Manifesto (part-2)

In order for collage to transcend craft and the surrealist portrayal of slight transformation it must become something it is not; ie: it must be made in the vein of contemporaneous art and the inclusiveness of all its genres and beyond the limits of its myopic process and materiality. Collage must be more like art and less like the limits of gluing paper to transcend the stigma of history and perception. #paintingwithpaper #mashups #jazz #accumulation #verbasizer #collage #manifesto

Collage Manifesto (part-1)

I believe that the quotidian idea of combining two images to make a collage is rather pedantic. I believe that the future of collage (theory) exists, not in the past as and end with surrealism, but in the future. The multi-maximalism of all sources of information existing at the same time in one frame of a moving moment - kind of like what your computer screen/ iPhone can look like at any given moment when surfing the interwebs. A mandate for a new collage theory is a kind of maximalism for stimulation combined with the multiplicity of multitasking. It is that moment between your perception of seeing everything at the same time and your brain beginning to process all this information into a defining moment where everything begins to make sense and you start to separate the noise from the pertinent information needed to understand. Collage should be unknown and unfamiliar, not the derivative, redundant, and appropriated ideas of a group of individuals exploring that same “revolutionary newness” over 98+yrs ago. #justthebegining #collage #manifesto