Shinro Ohtake: Queer, 1985, found objects, ink, printed matter, gouache and paper on cardboard, 13⅝ by 8¾ inches; at Parasol Unit.
"Picture a profusion of colorful detritus caking frames, boxes and hand-built wooden structures. Imagine, then, that all this detritus manifests the play of littered streets, encounters in Hawaii, the belch and screech of electric guitars, the buzz of insects. Introduce into the scene a sequence of quieter things—abstract works on paper made with gouache and plaster and resembling corroding metal; quasi-architectural wall panels made with paraffin and trussed with cellophane tape; a rectangular black wall piece that smells of a rustic cottage mixed with the reek of a painters’ studio." -Prajna Desai on Sinro Ohtake
Is there an aspect of this collage that you fell can help guide the artistic choices you are making in your own collange?
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