By
Db Waterman
Piece description from the artist
WARM MEMORIES is a Urban landscape Mixed Media Collage with photographic elements reminiscent of an old Polaroid photograph.
db Waterman deliberately created a weathered look with visible scratches and aged textures, to give the Mixed Media artwork a melancholic character.
A woman in retro clothing in the foreground, looks out over an iconic New York cityscape.
It evokes a sense of nostalgia. The image takes the viewer back to the 1950s .
It looks like an old vacation photo of a visit to New York City.
The woman connects the viewer to the urban, like a still moment from a forgotten era. This unique combination makes it a powerful example of contemporary urban art with a vintage slant.
The combination of urban landscape, texture and emotional charge makes this a powerful example of contemporary mixed media collage art with a nostalgic slant.
I assemble original photography, assorted papers, acrylics, oil, charcoal, ink, and pencil in my works. The variety of resources I am able to use has proved indispensable to me. The biggest challenge the collage medium posed was its unforgiving lack of transparency. Finding a way to replicate the effects of transparency afforded by paint, especially watercolors, was a large victory for me. The preparing labor shows through in my collages; layer upon layer of material remains visible in the finished pieces. I believe my body of work is characterized by my skill for reinvention. Having always loved the appearance of weathered walls plastered with peeling paint and old posters, I revive this aesthetic with hopefully a keen and professional eye. The creative objective of my work is to “make something beautiful out of dilapidation.” My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.
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