Montage Artist Dennis Jordan | Animal Soul

I think of my artwork as small slices of my catholic upbringing. Educated by nuns, my art shows the conflict with religious up bring. Animal Soul reflects on the work of St Francis, only to evolve into a quest to reach higher. This piece began with a discovery of a collection of small plastic toy animals and a fondness for St. Francis.

I combine religious experiences, and found objects to create fresh collage assemblages that contrast my upbringing to create new ways of expression and insights. By layering together completely different bits and pieces and inspirations, creating my artwork enables me to use my accumulation of treasured boyhood finds combined with life experiences. I think of my artwork as small slices of my upbringing.

Animal Soul is a mixed media assemblage that uses inexpensive, everyday materials such as wood, polystyrene, plaster, and paper. But also includes a range of media to include paint, animal glue, rusted metal, found objects, resin, and collage. Artwork has water media paint with collage over it, or collage with water media paint over it. I begin by crafting a simple wood framework, spray paint several colors at once, allowing the paint to dry. Wood board is used in the backing of each collage, and this one is no different. Layers of cut and paste collage paper elements are assembled, glued down and varnished over. Toy parts, found objects, left over hobby train plastic pieces are painted gold and highlighted with rust.

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