📢✂️Hybrid Narratives an Interview with Marta Janik published in Kolaj Magazine #42✂️📢
Earlier this year, I caught up with my dear friend and collaborator Marta Janik for an insightful interview about humanities place in nature, her sources of inspiration, and her current art practice. Marta is a Flea Circus Ringmaster, Skilled Animator and Collage Artist Extraordinaire based in Warsaw, Poland. I am delighted to say that you can read all about our conversation ‘Hybrid Narratives’ in the new issue of Kolaj Magazine.
Marta also has an upcoming exhibition
”Co robią małpiszony? / What do the cheeky monkeys do?”
Saturday, September 6th,
From: 10am- 6pm with an official opening event at 4pm CEST,
At: Muzeum Karykatury im. Eryka Lipińskiego,
Warsaw, Poland.
Kolaj Magazine Issue #42 also features:
✂️“Little Beasts: Art, Wonder and the Natural World” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
✂️In “Dance to Resist & Rebel,” they report on how the always excellent UK artist Mark Murphy took collage to Glastonbury Festival.
✂️A profile of San Diego, California-based collagist G. E. Vogt‘s collage project that takes on Project 2025, a plan by the current administration to reorganize the American government under an executive power that would enact an authoritarian, white supremacist, Christian nationalist agenda.
✂️They review the book, “Transformation: A Survey of Collage and the Development of Personal Language”, that features thirteen contemporary collage artists. The book presents a multi-year spread of the artist’s work alongside a short Question & Answer piece by each artist as a way to get a sense of the artist’s personal language and process. “Paul Loughney’s thoughtful introduction offers an insightful definition of the medium that goes beyond the typical observations about glue and fragment.”
✂️A whole host of other writings and images from international collage artists doing incredible things.
For more from Kolaj Magazine #42 and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.
For more of the great work of the Marta Janik CLICK HERE.
To find out more about whats happening at the Muzeum Karykatury im. Eryka Lipińskiego CLICK HERE.
Cover Image: “God” (2018) Analogue Collage by Marta Janik.
🦋Work Featured in Uppercase Magazine #64: Transformation🦋
🦋✂️ Work Featured in Uppercase Magazine #64: Transformation ✂️🦋
I was delighted to have a recent conversation with fellow collagist and arts writer extraordinaire Kerrie More. She was in the process of putting together a fantastic article on the topic of creative flow. Flow states are experiences of being completely in the moment and energized, while drawing upon your own deep internal resources of knowledge, skills and experience to make intuitive moment to moment choices. They can often be marked with a sense of ease or even joy whilst undertaking a complex task. Flow states regularly lie at the heart of creative practices.
Her article has appeared in the most recent edition of Uppercase magazine which is all about time and transformation, and it is a wonderful and intriguing read. It was great to hear her insights garnered from research and interviews with other creative practitioners.
Its so interesting to discover other peoples experiences of flow and the little rituals and practices that they maintain to drop into these states more readily.
What a beautiful article and magazine!
Other fantastic creatives featured in this article include:
Wendy Solganik, Rene’ Shoemaker, Judy Ormshaw, Ellen Howard, Cheryl Chudyk, Janet Guertin and Kim Koehler. Also, the fabulous Andrea Lewicki.
For more from the transformative Uppercase Magazine: CLICK HERE.
To follow the work of Kerrie More CLICK HERE.
Cover Image: “Butterflies” - Anisa Makhoul
📢✒️ Featured in Publication - Poetry X Collage Journal: Volume 2 ✒️📢
Cover Image Credit: A detail of “Community Revisited” by Laura Tafe.
I am thrilled to have had my artwork and poetry published in the latest Poetry X Collage journal (Vol:2). This journal features the work of some of the many fantastic artists who I had the pleasure to meet during this years Poetry & Collage residency hosted online by the Kolaj Institute. What an experience, I learned a lot!!!
This journal features six pieces of my visual poetry “The Supposed Stranger” & “Lost”, “Monkey Business” & “Impotent Computational Rage”, “Ghost In Your Orbit” & “A Deeper Season”; plus one collaborative poem with the artist Rosemary Rae entitled “Some Days Flicker”.
For a statment by the publishers read below:
“PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world.
Each issue presents six movements of work by artists and curators. Page spreads are meant to be free zones of thinking where the contributor has chosen all elements of the layout: font, image place, composition, etc.
The initial volumes were produced by participants in Kolaj Institute’s Poetry & Collage Residency in March 2022 and April 2022 under the direction of Christopher Kurts with support from Ric Kasini Kadour and Christopher Byrne.”
PoetryXCollage Volume Two Features:
Anthony D. Kelly
Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
(@Freeformanto)
Carla E. Reyes
Astoria, New York, USA
(@carlacrafts)
Janice McDonald
Denver, Colorado, USA
(@janicemcdonaldart)
Samantha Brown
Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland
(@samantha.bmcg)
Laura Tafe
Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
(@LJTafeMD)
Collaborations:
by Cathy Greenhalgh(@covidcollagechronicles), Thomas Mayer (@klettwandel),
Rosemary Rae (@rosemarydesign), Anthony D. Kelly,
& Cheryl Chudyk (@stitchpixie)
To find out more, purchase copies of the journal, or submit to later volumes click here.
Magazine Feature - KOLAJ #32 - As part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage'
Magazine Feature - I am delighted that my piece 'A Dream for Transformation and New Growth' has been printed in this season's Issue 32 of Kolaj Magazine. This work was included as part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage' pg. 14 -19.
I really enjoyed reading about his proposition that disjunction as opposed to juxtaposition is the real driving force for making meaning throughout both the mediums of haiku and collage.
He eloquently posits that by leaving a disjunctive gap for our readers/viewers to intuit their own connections between elements of a composition, we allow them a fruitful space in which they become active members in creating new meaning from our work.
Intriguing stuff indeed, I certainly ended up saying "Hmmmmmmmmmm . . . Very interesting! " out loud to myself a number of times while reading this article.
To check out Rod T.Boyer's haiku & visual art visit: www.ourthomasart.com
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