{"id":2596,"date":"2014-01-26T23:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:05:35","slug":"cover-collaboration-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/cover-collaboration-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Collaboration: How We Made This Issue’s Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dear-George-web\"<\/a><\/p>\n

by Ric Kasini Kadour<\/p>\n

The cover of Issue 7 of Kolaj Magazine<\/em> is the result of a collaboration among seven artists:\u00a0Allan Bealy, Michael Ziobrowski, Steven Specht, Michael Waraksa, Lita Kenyon, Amanda Fasken, Danielle Garza.\u00a0An homage to Georges Braque, the cover celebrates the essential work of the collage artist: to use fragments, to establish space and movement, to get us closer to the subject, the poetry of our world.<\/p>\n

Ric Kadour writes:<\/p>\n

As collaboration emerged as a theme for this issue of Kolaj Magazine<\/em>, it seemed appropriate that the cover of the issue also be a collaborative effort. To select collaborators, we posted a call on our website and Facebook page that asked potential collaborators to \u201cget in line\u201d by sending us an email. Then, Kolaj<\/em> editor Benoit Depelteau sent each person in line a Photoshop file and asked them to add to it and send it back. Each time this missive left, we waited with anticipation for its return. And each time the file came back, a new, delightful portion of the image emerged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the artists were recruited to collaborate on a print that would also be used as the cover of Kolaj Magazine<\/em> #7<\/a>. Kolaj<\/em> editor Benoit Depelteau coordinated the effort. The image crisscrossed North America as artists added to the work. Southern California-based Michael Ziobrowski <\/a>went first. Ziobrowski\u2019s goal with a making a collage is to make the viewer \u201cfeel the same freedom in viewing it, as I felt in creating it.\u201d His intent was \u201cto show as much of my style as possible, but keeping in mind that I would be sharing space with other artists, and be on the bottom of the pile,\u201d wrote Ziobrowski. \u201cSo I did my best to leave a developed, but open canvas for collaborators\u2026including an image search for collage pioneer Georges Braque, some torn bits of brown paper I work with in studio and painting on actual wood panel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next the image went to Upstate New York where Steven Specht was the second person to work on the image. Specht considers himself \u201cto be part of the great collage consisting of the collective collagist community\u201d and is a frequent collaborator with other collage artists. \u201cI am always aware of the role of perceived depth in creating an interesting composition,\u201d wrote Specht. \u201cI try to infer a vague, surreal narrative into my works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newcastle, Ontario collage artist Amanda Fasken, who is new to collaboration, took a subtle approach. \u201cMy approach was to add a little bit of myself and my work onto the layers, but make it seem apart of the piece without taking anything away from the other artists work,\u201d she writes. She added the element of the woman standing in the top right corner.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles-based Danielle Garza blazed a path of colour by adding a waterfall of images along the right side of the piece. Michael Waraksa<\/a> from Chicago sprinkled the work with airplanes and eyeballs and other elements. Lita Kenyon<\/a> from Edmonds, Washington added an image that \u201cwould be a contrast of shape and colour\u201d and played with opacity and filters to make it work.<\/p>\n

The final contributor was Brooklyn, New York\u2019s Allan Bealy<\/a> who brought the piece together. \u201cBecause I was the last to add to the piece there was already a substantial image built. I needed to find a way to bridge the elements into what would be the finished piece,\u201d writes Bealy. \u201cI took the bridge metaphor literally and used bridge and span graphics as my contribution. I also decided to play around with Braque as he seemed to be the focus of the work but was receding into the background after everything was added.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"dear-george-collaboration\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Because the work started and finished as an homage to Georges Braque, Ric Kadour titled the piece, Dear George, Thanks For Everything<\/em>. It was Braque, after all, who helped make contemporary collage possible. In 1909, Braque was engaged in an intense study of C\u00e9zanne\u2019s ideas about painting. Working side-by-side with Pablo Picasso, he worked to make art, \u201cart\u201d, or in the words of art critic Ernst Gombrich, \u201cto stamp out ambiguity and to enforce one reading of the picture\u2014that of a man-made construction, a coloured canvas.\u201d He did this by fragmenting his subject. \u201cWhen objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909; this for me was a way of getting closest to the object,\u201d said Braque. \u201cFragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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by Ric Kasini Kadour The cover of Issue 7 of Kolaj Magazine is the result of a collaboration among seven artists:\u00a0Allan Bealy, Michael Ziobrowski, Steven Specht, Michael Waraksa, Lita Kenyon, Amanda Fasken, Danielle Garza.\u00a0An homage to Georges Braque, the cover…<\/p>\n

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