Hester Jones

Bordes de corte # 1: Montaje consciente - ¡Explora el fotomontaje y el collage de Dada para ayudar a un bloque creativo!

Very thought provoking! It looks like you found an oasis.

Laura Dahlman Loved your art!!! thank you for sharing!!!

Hi Laura,  Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful collage here and on Instagram. Your artwork truly resonates with the mindful collage theme you have done a brilliant job. The eyes placed here and there, and the animal/human hybrid evoke a fantastic infusion of Hannah Hoch technique but with your own creative stamp :)  I like the use of text to the left hand side as we cannot quite see all of it so it leaves me pondering what the deeper message is behind the collage (whether that is intentional or not or subconscious on the artist's part) Also love the mala beads hanging over the mushroom - a perfect seat for your meditating subject! For me, mushrooms conjure up a shamanic journey to the underworld or other magical place in fairytales or folklore :) Have you ever been on a shamanic journey? I have here in London and it's a really great way to get creative inspiration! The floral wings suggest the meditator might be about to take off... maybe in their meditation as they also look very still and composed in the present moment. The little yellow section above the bird's head reminds me of a Matisse cut-out.  Sometimes I've made collages that had creases that bothered me, and I get self critical then I think what the heck - It doesn't need to be perfect! Thanks again! Can't wait to see your next artwork. Will you make more in this series? Or maybe try my second class on collage... Hester :)

Thank you so much Hester, I'm really glad you enjoy it. I had so much fun I was really able to get in that wonderful state of flow where time seems to just fly by. 
  I'm actually not really sure if the text was intentional or not I think it was a little of both, I remember thinking about whether or not I should cover it but don't actually remember making a conscious decision. I think I just kind of ended up moving things around and decided I actually liked a little text poking through. I really tried to go with intuition and not overthink things like you suggested. I think that has always been a problem for me with collage I get so caught up in making a beautiful end result that I get anxious and can't enjoy the process.
   I've always been fascinated by mushrooms so when I found that image I just had to incorporate it somehow. I've always been fascinated by all things woodland, I always tagged along with my dad when he went for walks in the woods and was always pestering him to take me out on walks or to my uncle's farm every chance I got.  
  I've never gone on a Shamanic journey but would love to one day.     I'm very limited by my anxiety right now and am trying my best to be patient with the process of letting go of unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. It's so interesting how hard it can be to let go even though you know these things no longer serve or protect you and in fact have come to hinder you instead. My therapist told me it's actually normal to go through a sort of grieving process as you slowly learn to let go and it's important not to force it, you have to find your own "workable edge" where you come up to a point of tolerable discomfort but don't move past it into despair and depression it's a tricky balance and hard not to get frustrated and overwhelmed at times.
    I found collageing was very therapeutic so I'm happy to have another tool in my wellness kit. Art can be so freeing and I'm so grateful to have had so many great resources and teachers over the years. I'm so happy I happened upon your classes here it's really got me feeling inspired to create again. I'm really looking forward to experimenting with adding in some sketches and drawings along with magazine cutouts I think that could be a lot of fun.

Oh that sound wonderful and really magical walking in the woods with your Dad! It seems that you are doing all the right things to help heal from your anxiety and depression :) I also found collage very therapeutic. There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel, I had an anxiety disorder for many years and now I'm totally free of anxiety, thanks to CBT, yoga, meditation and collage of course! I'd love to see your collages with sketches and drawings. I'm so pleased the tutorials have helped you get creative again - you have inspired me too!

I really appreciate you so much for saying that, hope and trusting in the process is something I'm really struggling with, so it helps so much more than I can express to hear that.

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This was a lot of fun, I've always struggled with collage and this class really helped me to let go and not overthink things so much. I'm quite satisfied with how this turned out even though the paper did get a little wrinkled in places. I learned a lot and I'm looking forward to taking what I learned and applying it to my next collage. Thanks for the class I'm looking forward to watching the others!

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