Axel Saffran

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Making photomontages is my way of making sense of the world.

Although the process of creating a collage is somewhat beyond my personal control …along the way I tend to start recognising more and more visual representations of personal insights, layered amongst and blended with references to large-scale phenomena.These can be interpreted in multiple ways, and I try not to gravitate toward one meaning.

Conceptually, by defining a theme, I create spaces in which I sometimes find myself bouncing around like a squash-ball, in search for the magnetic trajectory that is in line with something deeper, which ties together elements out of inner necessity.

The analogies that can be recognised between seemingly seperate aspects of reality, are the most beautiful things that I know of. They can be experienced as different layers of reality that partially merge when placed over eachother and observed from a certain perspective.

They can be expressed in literature, in music...

What distinguishes visual art from these fields, is that everything is simultaneously present - although it may take a long time before something hiding in there, finally dawns on you.


Axel Saffran (Netherlands)
www.axelsaffran.com

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