So, I just added a “submit your work” button to my site {look up and to your left}, and boy oh boy am I glad I did! That’s how I got my hands on these collages. They’re part of a series titled, ‘Try Not To Overthink Things Dear’, by Scotland based artist Lauren McLaughlin. Clearly that title spoke to me immediately, as did the story that Lauren sent along with her submission:
“…I’m attaching a few collages from my most recent series titled ‘Try not to overthink things dear’ which were made as a response to the realisation that I was constantly overthinking what I was doing in my practice. After suffering from a creative block and massive confidence crusher of being rejected for several funding applications I decided to stop overthinking and just make…. so I locked myself in my studio for a week with a supply of vintage magazines, books and various cuttings I had collected over the past few months and these were the results.”
Yes, yes… YES!
Perfection. I just locked myself in the studio last night and told myself the very same thing!
yay! best thing any of us can do!
LOVE!
very nice. recontextualization of images through collage. something I like to do myself but in Photshop.
Such a great sense of each piece exactly where they should be. Perfect layouts.
I love the use of vintage onto the lined paper. I think the two go hand in hand. It looks pleasing to the eye.
Absolutely love it. The result and the title. Will have to write it down and frame it.
excellent idea… i might do the same!