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emory cooper
Photo:Wade Dunstan
Where are you from?
How does snowboarding influence your style?
Tell us about your modus operandi:
Litchfield, CT.
The rush and thrill I feel from snowboarding is the same when I am creating a piece. I feel free and liberated on the mountain, it’s the same feeling when I am collaging, just a different environment.
I start with an image that I would like to recreate as a collage. I will then loosely sketch my vision on the base layer and from there I fill it in with hundreds of torn pieces of magazine paper. My palate comes from images from the magazine organized by color and texture.
What’s your preferred medium to work in? Collage. I get my materials from any magazine I can get my hands on. Mostly fashion and snowboard magazines, but I am really excited about my recently acquired vintage collection of People magazines.
What artist, living or dead, would you shake hands with if you could? Jackson Pollock.
