Collage=Art=Collage

I've become attracted to the concept of collage and its manifestations. Some of my influences have been Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Cornell, and Dada artists such as Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann.

Some of my recent work has included a "video collage" of animated mechanical devices, and a current serious of light boxes constructed of found wood in the sculpture studio and the simple wiring of light fixtures. I've always (in terms of my maturity as an artist) been drawn to the found object, and i'm starting to see it's effect on my work as I look at my portfolio.

I'm tentatively adopting a philosophy of the collage and how it relates to all art. The collage/photomontage/assemblage is a composition of images, text, found objects, and photographs, coalesced into one "universe" i should say. My proposal is that all art is a form of collage of the mind, where the addition, arrangement, and juxtaposition of images, objects, (memories), ideas, etc., drawn from the library (or palette) of one's own consciousness.

I challenge anyone to contradict this definition of art, as I feel I can justify it infinitely.