“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield
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An interesting feature within this work is the face within the face. It’s collage—a splash between two figures from two previous works that I deconstructed. - Tschabalala Self’s ‘Dry Land’ Is a Collage Built From Her Own Past Work - via Surface
“Gleefully Askew,” before all else, proves Nilsson’s undying love for her craft—for the materials, first, but more so for her whimsical look at the world. She renders people around her, soaking in every joy of life to transmute that into her frolicsome artworks. Her first watercolors of jubilant women in the 1970s and ’80s convey a magnetic feeling of freedom, continued in her exploratory collages of the ’90s. At the heart is a woman whose lust for life is uncontainable. - At 86, Gladys Nilsson Is Still Feeling Gleefully Askew - via Harper’s Bazaar
Centered on the design concept “FROM OKINAWA TO THE WORLD,” the collaboration merges Orion’s iconic island heritage with HUF’s West Coast skate sensibilities. Adding a distinct artistic edge, the lineup incorporates upcycled artwork and collage-style motifs by Okinawan artist Tomotatsu Gima, paying homage to regional culture through an authentic street-culture lens. - Here’s a Full Look at HUF and Orion’s Capsule Collaboration - via Hypebeast
My work is an investigation into the mechanics of perception. I construct layered photographic images designed to disrupt “automated seeing,” the way our brains quickly categorize and dismiss the world around us. By using fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives, I transform familiar subjects into arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.I am interested in the moment the viewer is forced to pause, search, and reassemble meaning. In series such as Interpolation and In Between the Shadows, I treat photography not as a record of the world, but as a tool for revealing how we actively build our own reality. In these works, light, shadow, and negative space act as catalysts to interrupt habit and draw the viewer into a state of active observation. - Still Life Week: Sander Vos - via Lenscratch
A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2026 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
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