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Mixed Media, Paper on Paper
Size: 5.5 W x 7.5 H x 0.1 D in
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I typically perceive my reality as quite visually unpleasant, often finding fault in the details, and wishing things were different. Therefore, as a photographer, I’m rarely interested in capturing the authenticity of my existence, but rather obscuring it. I’m compelled to take photographs that abstract my surroundings, hiding or greatly enhancing any perceived flaws, and transforming objects and spaces into more aesthetically calm and quiet realms. Using unorthodox and alternative methods to shoot and print my photographs (Holga, 35 mm manual camera with closeup filters, Polaroids, paper negatives, etc.), I attempt to reimagine the ugliest of corners into something more dreamlike, soft, and beautiful. Taking pictures allows me to build a world of my own making, tightly controlled, devoid of humans, and very nature-forward. In establishing such control, my collages take this command a step further. Utilizing my own imagery exclusively, typically employing color Xeroxes of my original photographs, I assemble vignetted reflections of surreality on paper, traveling further from the known, approaching transcendence. Through this process of framing life into dreams with my camera, and reframing again through paper collage assemblages, making art gives me a sense of order in the midst of the acutely felt chaos around me. The image at the top of the collage is a photograph I printed in a black and white darkroom using a paper negative and one of my original photographs shot with a 35mm manual camera. The center image is a color Xerox of a portion of an image I shot with my 35mm camera ca. 2000 on the roof deck of my apartment in Philadelphia. The lower portion of the collage is a color Xerox of a photograph I shot using my 35mm camera, inside my apartment, with Saran Wrap covering the lens of the camera. Collage 96, mixed media on paper, 5.5" x 7.5" 2023 © Libby Saylor
Mixed Media:Paper on Paper
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Size:5.5 W x 7.5 H x 0.1 D in
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I have been making art since I was very young, and used art-making as a way to manage my anxiety as a little girl. Around age five, I used to doodle on white mailing envelopes and coffee filters using bright Magic Markers. And I would take chubby wax Crayons, peel the paper off, and scrape the sides of them on the lip of a jar. Watching the colorful shavings drop into the jar, I would create a work of art with the layers of colors. I didn't realize it at the time, and just thought it was something fun and beautiful to do. But, this was the beginning of my obsession with color and beauty. I went to art college in Philadelphia and studied painting, drawing, and photography. I fell in love with all of these mediums, but ultimately chose photography as my path of study. However, I was never satisfied with just a photograph, and always wanted to incorporate my love of paint and mark-making into my photographic work. I created my first collage series in college as a way to manage and process the heavy emotions surrounding my relationship with my mother. To this day, that body of work is my most cherished. And this is how my love of collage began. Currently, I am an artist, creating and working in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I construct small and delicate collages on paper using my own photography (usually color Xeroxes of my images, but sometimes original photographs), found images, paint, colored pencil, graphite, and other materials. I also draw on occasion and try not to put myself into any particular medium box. I make what feels right and I make what makes me feel better in the moment. Influences/Inspiration: Cy Twombly, William Eggleston, Gerhard Richter, Édouard Vuillard, Deborah Roberts
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