Cutting up art

The notion of cutting and sticking is nothing new and is something that I have previously explored using magazines. See these works here. However, recently I have ventured into new ground and started cutting up and sticking down my own artwork. 

I came to this process as I went through an intense period of creating gelli prints, leaving me with piles of outcomes that were works in progress and nothing more. I wanted to make sure of them and the text they held.

As the works were all my own there was the added benefit that any words were in my own font and that all outcomes were in the same colour pallets. Text is the same size as it is all created with the same stencil, meaning putting the words together was much easier than working with second-hand materials. 

The processes developed as I worked, initially I was cutting off words here and there and sticking them down, but as I moved on I decided to pre-cut all the old art, and create piles of words, singular letters, and areas of block colour. I am not sure if these will emerge as fully formed ideas, but at the moment I am enjoying the playing process.