Collage 61 Artwork

I typically perceive my reality as quite visually unpleasant, often finding fault in the details, and wishing things were different. Therefore, as a photographer, I’m rarely interested in capturing the authenticity of my existence, but rather obscuring it. I’m compelled to take photographs that abstract my surroundings, hiding or greatly enhancing any perceived flaws, and transforming objects and spaces into more aesthetically calm and quiet realms. Using my 35 mm manual camera and closeup filters, I attempt to reimagine the ugliest of corners into something more dreamlike, soft, and beautiful. Taking pictures allows me to build a world of my own making, tightly controlled, devoid of humans, and very nature-forward. In establishing such control, my collages take this command a step further. Utilizing my own imagery exclusively, typically employing color Xeroxes of my original photographs, I assemble vignetted reflections of surreality on paper, traveling further from the known, approaching transcendence. Through this process of framing life into dreams with my camera, and reframing again through paper collage assemblages, making art gives me a sense of order in the midst of the acutely felt chaos around me. The image at the top of the collage is a color Xerox of a photograph I shot with my manual camera and 35mm color film. I used close-up filters attached to the lens and shot greenery and flowers in my neighborhood in Wayne, PA. The center image is a color Xerox of a Polaroid I took ca. 2003 of the top of a toilet tank in my apartment. The lower portion of the collage is a color Xerox of a photograph I shot looking outside my hotel window in Lucca, Italy. This collage is an original work of art, mixed media on watercolor paper, completed in 2023. © Libby Saylor

Mixed Media:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 15 H x 0.1 D in

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