Soulstice
9” x
11”
Paper
Collage
Nelson,
British Columbia
Autumn
2001
Jim
Kogelheide
It was a month
or so away from the winter solstice and thoughts of this upcoming event were
bouncing around my head when I began to organize my inspiration for a new project.
I
was in the mood for creating a winter landscape as well as continuing to
experiment with paper collage techniques.
I thought that it would be appropriate to create a peace of artwork
inspired by images from my stay in Manitabe where I had originally developed
these techniques.
Manitoba
is a province that is fairly flat with pockets of small rolling hills mixed
with sporadic evergreen bushes and young deciduous trees. My winter scene shows that the trees and
bushes have a slight snow covering and if you look closely at the snow covered
ground you will notice a subtle change in the snow colour to show the shadows
of the trees and bushes.
One
aspect of the ‘cut’n’paste’ image that may not be immediately recognizable is
the direction placement of the magazine cut-outs. Usually, I will place the cut-out paper to
follow the contour of an image or follow the direction of movement in an
image. For example… the sun radiates light
in an outward direction so normally I would place the cut-out magazine peaces
in a radiating way. However, this art
peace is quite different. If you look
closely, you will notice that the magazine cut-out bits are following the
shapes of three squares. Each square is
a different size and two of them have been rotated on slight angles.
I
wanted to see how the final texture would look when I used forced design
elements that contradicted the natural flow of the image.
Jim Kogelheide
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