Collage > Speechless Series

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015

collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Unspoken

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Unspoken

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Unspoken

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Lost for Words

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Lost for Words

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Lost for Words

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Absence

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Absence

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Absence

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Nothing

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Nothing

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Nothing

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Invisible

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Invisible

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Outline

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Outline

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Wordless

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015
collage, art, cut-out, paper cut, layered, conceptual, fine art, cut paper, alter, altered, bookwork, book, bookworks, unique book, one of a kind, altered book,
Wordless

Collage
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
2015

‘Shortcomings’ is the original title of the graphic novel by cartoonist Adrian Tomine. It was published by Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal, Canada in 2007. The genre of this art form with seven to nine cells per page, in a gridded format, is drawn in black and white with ‘speech bubbles’ floating overhead of the characters in the book. In the Speechless series, an ongoing collage project, is the removal and outlining of the drawings and speech bubbles using an surgeon’s knife. Reducing the content to line drawings, the pages become veiled layers, a dissected essence of the story that the brain comprehends as both linear and abstract. Between the two, narrative and abstraction, it invites the viewer to literally read between the lines and pages. The final artwork is presented as four pages deep separated by 3/16th inch foam core. The backing of the meticulously cut mash-up of the collage is another version of Shortcomings that is sliced into strips then stacked on top of one another.