Joie de vivre Print

I inherited a bookcase full of old National Geographics and other magazines from my grandfather, which, as I became an illustrator, served as a wonderful pictorial resource. I would hunt for images to draw. Then I discovered the collage art of Hannah Höch. (A friend had written a book about her and her art.) I tend to admire most those artists who are beyond imitation, and she fits this category. Where her images were primal, dark, sublime, in the sense of "terrifying", my collages tended to be sun-filled like the afternoons of my childhood. Drawing is my metier, but constructing pictures from cut pieces has that element of surprise and error, like an eye-rhyme in a poem, or a felicitous malapropism that's more apt than the word you meant. The technique is more like arranging furniture or a dinner party; the goal being surprise more than provocation. I construct many of my images these days, building compositions from partial drawings and parts of drawings and carefully curated imperfections. That's where ideas come from. I see; I borrow. Much of the best Art is cut from many pieces of cloth.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.