Artist: Jeff Delude
Medium: Mixed media
“The first step in this piece was to glue the large paper hippo cutout onto the wooden panel, then I painted the entire background with an earth-color paint,” artist Jeff Delude says of the first collage he created for his recent show, “Fast Forward.”
“I like to set up conflicting scenarios, and so the ballerina image was, for me, the protagonist to the hippo. Soon, minor planetary images found their way in the mix, including the head about to be devoured in the center area.”
The dot pattern, he says, was meant to give the piece an overall abstract structure.