FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Sign Mountain, Tennessee, USA. Ron Buffington writes, “I construct sculptural constructions from discovered materials. I mix these supplies in a way harking back to collage, attaching or conjoining them, arranging them side-by-side on cabinets, stacking them precariously on platforms. In a way analogous to my assemblages, my collages make use of a gesture of providing, the presentation of fabric for the viewer’s consideration. These photographs mix my very own pictures with appropriated imagery, a disjuncture I relish. Digital collage facilitates the conflation of incommensurable picture worlds. The resistance provided by the fragments of a collage, their refusal to coalesce, underlines our uneasy relationship with nature, together with and particularly our personal.” Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.