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collages are fun! (and therapeutic)

February 10th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Darren Cox, Daz Honey, Liz Beck, My Art, Photoshop, SecondLife, Wynx Whiplash, abstract art, art techniques, art therapy, collage, creative energy, digital paint, dreams, figure, fine art, silver | 2 Comments »

I was thinking that collages are conscious versions of dreams. Dreams serve to keep us healthy or at least are the manefestation of a process that serves to keep us mentally healthy, so collages are a positive activity (if nothing else!).

There are at least three different types of collages I’ve found.

1: Wish fullfillment/visualization of a goal collages.

You can help solidify what you actually want by collaging words and pictures, focusing on the goal with this type of collage. Sometimes you might actually find out out you want something different when you are forced to think about the elements that make up the collage of your goal.

2: Art collages.

From Pablo Picasso’s early work to modern day scrapbooking, it’s fun and satisfying. I’m pretty proud of society making scrapbooking such a popular hobby. It trips me out to see how many pre-made bits and pieces there are now for scrapbookers. It’s not my scene but it is art and art is good.

3: Connecting with your subconcious/therapy collages.

We all have degrees of trauma, repressed memories and things we don’t even know we have deep inside that might be making us unhappy in some way. One of the tenets of psychiatry is that if the patient becomes consciously aware of what is in his subconscious it helps the healing process. I’m not an expert but I have found that if you arange random things it can sometimes trigger feelings, good and bad, this seems to be a healthy endevor! Liz Beck is an expert on art therapy and has a nice little blog you guys should visit!

Most collages are a combination of these, have I left anything out about collages?

Here’s a digital on digital collage I did a few years ago. I took some pictures in SecondLife, collaged them and then pushed the pixels around in Photoshop (the smudge finger in Photoshop’s liquify filter). Make sure you check out the digital creations of Wynx Whiplash when you visit secondLife!