{"id":1093,"date":"2012-11-26T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2013-03-29T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:59:05","slug":"collage-today-and-everyday-by-billy-mavreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/collage-today-and-everyday-by-billy-mavreas\/","title":{"rendered":"Collage Today and Everyday by Billy Mavreas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kolaj Magazine contributor Billy Mavreas writes about collage culture:<\/p>\n

The dada tweet, the belaboured carved totem, the nostalgic weeping, the pure array of form, the display of found meaning, the idle joke, the obsessive shavings: Whichever is your mainstay, the whole is compulsory to our world. We move through blurs of input so thoroughly that it\u2019s only fair to attempt a weaving of caught fragments.<\/h2>\n

“Collage is contemporary. It has no choice but to be so.”<\/p>\n

To read the entire article, SUBSCRIBE <\/a>to Kolaj<\/em> or\u00a0PURCHASE ISSUE TWO <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolaj Magazine contributor Billy Mavreas writes about collage culture: The dada tweet, the belaboured carved totem, the nostalgic weeping, the pure array of form, the display of found meaning, the idle joke, the obsessive shavings: Whichever is your mainstay, the…<\/p>\n

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