"DRAWING-COLLAGE VII"
Mikhail Gubin
I join isolated fragments of slashed drawing into collage form - 12 Inches x 14 Inches
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As I work on my collages, my thoughts return to my childhood. There are white and square piece of paper on the table, the charcoal is in my hand. But I cannot recall the delicious odors and sounds wafting from the kitchen, my mother’s domain. Like all these things my mother is gone, too. I am drawing diligently, paying attention to details. In the next moment the charcoal in my hand is substitute by scissors. I cruelly mangle freshly created, turning sharply defined lines into lace. Again a snowy piece of paper is on the table. The glue is replacing the scissors. Arbitrary and intuitively I join isolated fragments (loose parts) of slashed drawing into something new. This action is similar to the action of our memory – from fragments we are trying to reconstruct the past.
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