FROM KOLAJ #19
Kevin Sampsell Profiles Luke Dolkas
The revelation of doing collage art, for Portland, Oregon artist Luke Dolkas, came in the form of a camel. “One day I had an old painting that was all colourful and I painted white over it. But you could still see some colours through it. Then I had this paper I found in Italy, from this guy who showed us how to make paper when I studied abroad. I started cutting and tearing it and put it on this white background that had a mottled colour behind the white and I glued this weird thing together that looked like a camel, but there were these bottle shapes on the top of the back and sort of a picnic table-like pattern. I titled it Picnic on a Camel and that was the seminal piece that made me think: Okay, paper and paint together are what I’m into.”
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I want it to disintegrate. I don’t want to stop time. I want to let time be time. It’s like you’re saying “It’s okay if this thing crumbles.”
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Luke Dolkas has a degree in art from Portland State University, with extensive further art study in Italy. He creates work while managing two frame shops in Portland. You can see more of his work at www.lukeart.com.