Saturday, 18 March 2017

Owl

'Owl' collage by Paul Vallance

Shadow

'Shadow' collage by Paul Vallance

Kafka's eye

'Kafka's eye' collage by Paul Vallance
"You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." Franz Kafka.

Aquarius

'Aquarius' collage by Paul Vallance

House on fire

'House on fire' collage by Paul Vallance

Monday, 4 April 2016

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Saturday, 26 March 2016

Thursday, 17 March 2016

David Bowie 'Starman' tribute in Leyton.

A David Bowie memorial by Paul Vallance
The day after David Bowie died I saved a pile of Metro newspapers thinking I might do something with the images later on. The front page was a beautiful full page portrait of Bowie in Aladdin Sane make-up coupled with the line 'The stars look very different today'. It was a beautiful elegant tribute for such a mediocre newspaper.
For my memorial I've pasted images from the newspaper onto an old mannequin. I found the dummy in the street years ago and its been down the end of my garden ever since scaring the birds and the neighbours. I had fun decorating it. If I had the chance to do it again I'd use the images differently but it's all glued down now in its random messy way with PVA, it can't be undone.

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Monday, 19 October 2015

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Northern lights

'Northern lights' collage by Paul Vallance

Fully fledged

'Fully fledged' collage by Paul Vallance
For this collage I've combined a photo of a bird of prey and a male nude by Peter Maria Schafer.  taken from his 1989 monograph 'blue up'.
I think the bird is a sparrow hawk but can't be certain.