Cohort 52 is a platform for emerging voices from the Applied Art & Design program at Sierra College in Northern California. Cohort 52 is facilitated by Assistant Professor Vincent Pacheco.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I enjoy doing all things involving creativity, and a lot of themes that I’m inspired by when making art involve a lot of modernism, and simplicity for the most part.
How much experience do you have with collage?
Collage artists tend to be picky when it comes to their source material. Can you talk about your approach for selecting your images and/or publications?
Were there any large themes you intended to explore or unpack before you began with this series of work? Did you stay on theme, or did things change as you began physically cutting and pasting images?
How did your background and life experiences inform your collages?
Even though these collages were meant to be more objective, I do thing there is an aspect of them that makes them subjective as well because of my understanding and appreciation of certain things in the real world.
What was your environment and set-up like when making the work? Did you listen to music? Did you work in isolation, or were you surrounded by distraction? Do you think this influenced the work you made?
Scissors or X-Acto?
Was there anything unexpected that emerged while creating your work? Any new epiphanies?
I realized pretty quickly after watching some of the lectures that collages don’t need much thought into them, as they tend to make themselves once you have the materials, which I thought was kind of neat.
Looking at your work again, has your understanding of your collages changed over time? Has any hidden meaning emerged?
Like I said before, the fascinating thing was about how collages don’t require that much planning as they are meant to be improvised and not focused on too much.
Many artists are using the pandemic as a moment to pause and reflect. Do you think Covid-19 informed your work in any way?
