Cryptic Collage
My favorite genres of artistic production are collage, mixed media, and digital art and my portfolio “Cryptic Collage” combines all the best of both of these creative worlds. By crafting and photographing my mixed media collages, I am able to represent one creative work in multiple forms through various image editing tools and tweaks. In addition, this work plays on my love of the obscure and the esoteric through unusual and somewhat inexplicable imagery and text from my own mind and musings.
This work is also a response to the text “The Question Concerning Technology”, in which the German philosopher Martin Heidegger states “the revealing that holds sway throughout modern technology does not unfold into a bringing-forth in the sense of poesis. The revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging ([translating] Herausfordern) . . .”
For Heidegger, technology itself is revealing, and my own creative portfolios are focused on revealing the relationship between art and technology. In particular, my work asks the following questions:
What is revealed and what is challenged when we utilize digital tools and technology to create art?
Is it possible to make sense of the natural or physical world through that which is not natural?
And how can we use the exchange of energy between (hu)man and machine, nature and techne, to birth a new world and creations?
