BUILDING IMAGES- Artist Research

John Stezaker

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"What do you hope to convey and evoke with your collage works?

That is not the way I think about my work. I'm not trying to communicate, convey or evoke. That is the fundamental difference in my vantage point on the image. It is not that I am using the image to do something to someone else. It is about how images affect me personally and about how I hand on the mysteriousness of this encounter with images to others. What it is that is being conveyed, evoked or communicated is what the work is trying to probe. It is unknowable and in a sense all of my work is addressed to the central mystery of what an image is."

I like how in this interview he explains (as written in the quote above) what he's trying to accomplish with his work; that he isn't really trying to get any type of message across, but only the message that images are mysterious.