Time traveler, collage on paper by Delia Vilhelm

Description

Part of a series of A4-size collages, all created using the pages taken from promotional magazines. Showing found material merged with my drawings, the collages momentarily gesture towards my earlier work in figurative drawing whilst also evidencing my insatiable curiosity towards the potentials of appropriating and re-configuring disparate visual motifs.

The topics that I’m interested in are often very personal and so these fragments are all chosen with a kind of hidden meaning. If I reveal why I am interested in these things, it cuts the meaning down and narrows the scope for interpretation. I need to have that emotional connection to the fragments and I hope that that is communicated, but that is up to the audience to decide how they interpret my work.

But mostly I want the viewer to be drawn in and hang around in this space of questioning what they are seeing. I want that uncertainty and ambiguity in the viewing experience.