and another thing

Simon Kirk, Exhibit U, 2013

I have been trying to define 'collage'.  In my Learning Agreement I used the word 'intriguing' to described what I am trying to produce.  I have just found this definition which perfectly describes what collage means to me. 


"Contextually the work of Robert Rauschenberg is important.  Rauschenberg took images out of context and juxtaposed them with other similarly displaced images.  Presented in this way the images generate complex interlockings of meaning and the work remains multidirectional and open ended.  Meaning is inherent but impossible to pin down precisely."  

Kirk, Simon, 2011, Green Pebble's ART East Anglia, Green Pebble Publications, Suffolk. p165