I looked at the surreal collage art work of two artists, Eugenia Loli and Beth Hoeckel as research. I love the juxtaposition created between foreground and background objects, for example, Beth Hoeckel’s photographs and collages are inhabited by inquisitive figures, often to be found standing on the edges of cliffs, or looking out to lakes or even into deep space (as seen above). I like the combination of realist and surrealist. Looking at the images I have gathered below, I feel like many of the collages have deeper meanings than they seem to at first.
On advice on making collages in an interview Eugenia Loli answered,
“I start by finding a “base” image, and then I sort of build around it. Sometimes I have a concrete idea of what I want to do, and sometimes I leave the images to fit together by themselves. Sometimes, after a lot of juxtaposing, the “base” image might not even be part of the final collage. Most of the time, I try to “say” something important via my art, but other times it’s just about doodling.”
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