Collage: Brave New World / Old and New Art Techniques

RTomens, 2020

I was going to try and write something about the state of the world and the brave new world desired by some and the way they go about it...but I can't because I have no clear thoughts on a generalisation such as 'the state of the world' because our worlds are different across the globe, from country-to-country - even North to South, East and West, city-to-city, house-to-house, person-to-person, even? None of which prevents people from describing the state of the world. Perhaps within us there's a mechanism which prompts us to believe we 'know' it and can assess it. The other option is to admit that the world in all its permutations is impossible to grasp in totality. Still, we would 'shape' the world if we could according to our preferred ideology. People are trying to do that all the time. They would make others slaves in their Utopia.

This collage combines old-fashioned cut paper with print and finally, digital technology. It's a mixture of the old world and the new. I can't see myself ever abandoning (toppling?) historical art techniques such as cutting paper. Likewise, I shall always be using the new.