Jay Stuckey, July 1st, 2009
24/02/2009
These collages are made doing google image searches from key words and phrases from dreams. In the end I’ll do one for every day in July, this is July 1st. Please note the photographs are all taken with my hand held in the studio, so they’re not ‘finished’ documentation.
I find this piece very compelling. It’s triangular shape works for me formally, calling to mind the trinity represented in the church, yet the shape of the leaf is paganistic, like the Birth of Venus. It makes me very melancholy and nostalgic, as if it’s reminding me of a time when religious idols and sexual attraction weren’t divorced (something we now are forced to find in pop-idols). I’m still trying to figure out what to do with the face in the window. But I do know that it’s necessary. It’s what upsets the gentleness of the image and keeps me enraptured. Nice.