Taly and Russ Johnson

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Artists Statement

 

Our art is created from reflections of life...

We strive to combine memory, intuition, dreams, pain, laughter, old magazines and trash as sources for art. Our work discovers the world's overlooked beauty. A beauty that consists of mixed feelings and communicates through a collage or blending of the crass and sublime.   Represented by images, timeless symbols, mass-media icons and found materials, our creations come from the imagination and express our ideas through random and chance media blending.

We embrace the handmade as well as the machine and computer-produced elements.   Joeseph Beuys said: "The idea of multiples is the distribution of ideas". The production of multiples is an important component in our work. Through book editions, prints, videos, CD's, flyers, posters and postcards, we broaden unconventional communication through conventional means.   Idea repetition within a single work adds to reflection.

What we create is Video, collage, books , photos...anything.   Our materials vary from one project to the next.

The art-reflection is only completed by the viewer-- you. To our work you bring your surroundings and self-visualization and that truly completes the art.

 

 

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