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Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. 

We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. 

This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. 

It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. 

This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.
Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. 

We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. 

This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. 

It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. 

This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.
Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. 

We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. 

This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. 

It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. 

This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.
Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. 

We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. 

This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. 

It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. 

This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.
Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. 

We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. 

This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. 

It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. 

This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.
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Wish you were here Collage

Paola Bazz

Italy

Collage, Paper on Cardboard

Size: 49.6 W x 49.6 H x 2.4 D in

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Just a shadow, a dream or a memory that lies dormant. Not merely memories, but frames of mind, thoughts, atmospheres. A nostalgic feeling for an absent something. We live in a fast changing society. Change entails uncertainty and nostalgia for the security we have lost. This feeling does exist in our society as an uninterpreted dream and it is constantly exploited by politicians and advertising. Propagandistic messages willing to contrast the unstable present with some imagined Golden Age are very common. Nostalgia contained in these messages is a cognitive short cut to cope with the pressure of the information overload and the consequently generated confusion. This 3d collage has been created by manipulating and transforming printed-paper recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues. Printed-paper, bursting with information, offers fragmented insights of our society and records of political and advertising messages. It has been generated by putting all together an aggregate of fragments, half-finished sentences, images and letters, in a sort of jigsaw puzzle. At a close-up view it becomes an abstract compositions, although from afar the original image is always recognizable allowing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. This work has been shown in several exhibitions in London and it is ready to be hung up.

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Multi-paneled Collage:Paper on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:49.6 W x 49.6 H x 2.4 D in

Number of Panels:2

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I am an anglo-italian artist based in Italy. I create art across the digital and physical realms exploring the concept of ‘Identity’ using different media, from 3d physical paper collage portraits to NFTs avatars (ed. The Other Avatars first NFTs Saatchi Art project). Art and Creativity have always been a form of escapism and survival for me, a kind of virtual world where to find peace. The Virtual/Digital and the Real/Physical are part of my practice. The main material for my physical works is usually recycled paper that I repurpose from magazines, books, catalogues etc.. Paper is a very interesting and complex material in itself, but it becomes more intriguing when printed, as it turns into a binder of messages. Having been trained as an architect, I can’t help myself from planning each of my works. I have developed different techniques and I like to choose the one that intuitively attracts me in that moment, to balance the other very rational approach to planning. The subjects of my works are often chosen around the topic of identity, including its continuous transformation, its intangibility and its cryptic nature. My choice of people as subjects - either ordinary or celebrities - is aimed at exploring the inadequacy of a portrait to describe that person. With an image, it is possible to fix only a fragment of the complex nature of their identity. Printed-paper steeped with fragmented messages is, therefore, the perfect medium to represent this complex, fragile and ungraspable nature. Using everyday objects such as paper, I also want people to investigate into our consumerist society where we conceive our goals in life through acquiring goods that we do not need and where our identity is defined by what we buy and exhibit. Like our identities, my portraits are fluid and mobile, and our perception of them changes as we move around them. From up close, the subjects become abstract compositions, making the viewer engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible, and through this I try to raise public awareness about other issues relating to our environment, our privacy and the complex notion of time too.

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