Dan Rule
Region: South
City / State: New Orleans, LA
These images start as digital collages, usually beginning from
singular images that capture my attention. Similarly to physical
attraction, there is no expressible reason why these starting
images are so captivating, but by building the collage I become
interested in surreal combinations that emphasize and subvert
our collective idealized visions of particular landscapes, people,
and concepts. The Cave, the Waterfall, or the Princess as ideas
are made into places both pastoral and unsettling. The unreal,
flat space that collage creates has a fun conflict with the
landscape painting conventions of depicting objects both very
near and very far.
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