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emory cooper

Where are you from? Litchfield, CT.

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. How does snowboarding influence your style? 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.

What artist, living or dead, would you shake hands with if you could? Jackson Pollock.

Photo:Wade Dunstan

Tell us about your modus operandi: 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.