The paper on which the abstract markings were made had some transparency. Then the several pages were chopped randomly and the cuttings assembled and reassembled until they began to evoke a recognizable image, in this instance a male upper torso from behind and to one side. Once a figure had, with my selective choices, more or less created itself, the segments were, one by one, pasted into place on a stiff cardboard; you can actually see and count the individual pieces, and detect the overlaps. The original is about twice up in size to what is viewed here.
A second stage was to photograph and enter it into the computer darkroom and apply colouration. This revealed some gorgeous tones in which the pasted over markings came through as of the opposite part of the colour wheel. The end result is a gorgeous, original, creative piece.
Fillière © Mar 8 2019
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