Incredible collage by Florian Kuhlmann… View the high resolution version here.
Do you start with a plan when you make your artwork? What is the process?
Normally I have an idea of what I want to express, but there is no final image I have in my head. Working on the images is a process and in most cases, the whole theme of the image develops during the work process.
There is some kind of feedback between the image and my thinking. Some parts of the image often seem to be Meaningless at the moment when I create it. But often they become important parts later. they - and the whole image - develop a kind of a life of its own. I think its a litte bit of writing a story, where you although don’t know the whole plot at the beginning and experience some surprises on your own while you write. Normally I just find the name of the image at the end of the process. at the moment I am working on a new piece I have absolutely no idea how it will be called. But it doesn’t matter, it will come.
What do you do for inspiration?
Hard to say. sometimes a three day-alcohol-excess with some good friends can be helpfull, sometimes its good to read a good theorizer. As I see my work in philosophical tradition, questioning how is reality. Its pretty helpfull too think about things happening around me. But to be honest there is nothing special i do for inspiration. its a process I can’t barely operate, as the process of creating is so slow it has some parts of surrealistic working methods.
Can you finish this sentence:
Creativity is… thinking. (via)
