{"id":2110,"date":"2013-07-29T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2013-07-28T21:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:36:43","slug":"duncan-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/duncan-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Johnson: Collaging with Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2111\" alt=\"Conveyer by Duncan Johnson (30&quot;x24&quot;)\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/conveyer-30x24-2012-copy.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/conveyer-30x24-2012-copy.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/conveyer-30x24-2012-copy-300x377.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/conveyer-30x24-2012-copy-400x503.jpg 400w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/conveyer-30x24-2012-copy-600x755.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Kolaj<\/em> contributor Ric Kasini Kadour interviewed Vermont-based artist Duncan Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/issue-5-threads-of-perception\" target=\"_blank\">Issue Five<\/a>, Kadour delves into the career and practice of Duncan Johnson,who\u00a0gathers wood from landfills and construction sites around his home in Hartford, Vermont and converts the refuse into colourful, two-dimensional works that hover somewhere between painting, sculpture, and collage.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">People have compared my work to collage and I don\u2019t disagree with them. I love collage. There are aspects of what I am doing that remind me of that process. It has to do with the way things react when they are butted up against each other. There is a tension that collage gives you. I experience it all the time with the melding of two things. Where they meet is that collage energy.<\/h2>\n<p>To read the full interview, purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kasinihouseartshop.com\/artist\/kolaj\" target=\"_blank\">Issue Five<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to never miss an issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Conveyer<\/em><br \/>\nby\u00a0Duncan Johnson<br \/>\n30&#8243;x24&#8243;<br \/>\nreclaimed wood, wire nails, graphite<br \/>\n2012<br \/>\nCourtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolaj contributor Ric Kasini Kadour interviewed Vermont-based artist Duncan Johnson. In Issue Five, Kadour delves into the career and practice of Duncan Johnson,who\u00a0gathers wood from landfills and construction sites around his home in Hartford, Vermont and converts the refuse into&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/duncan-johnson\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1997,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/issue-5-threads-of-perception\/","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":0},"title":"Issue 5: Threads of Perception","author":"kasini","date":"7 July 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Kolaj is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage. 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