The Art
Her work reflects our society's obsession with beauty through advertising - and the endless images that bombard us daily. It is a purposeful intermix of images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces - images and text - from advertising that arrives through my mailbox. Assembled like a mosaic; the paper tiles create an entirely new image - an eclectic and tactile portrait reworked in my imagination, utilizing materials that would otherwise go to waste."
Is a painting
technique and type of collage recognized. The term defines the difference
between a collage made of several kinds of materials, and a collage made of
only paper glued onto a painting.
Sandhi’s Papier collé mosaics feature
hand-cut and hand-applied pieces of assorted paper: greeting cards, advertising
ephemera, calendars, packaging and other decorative papers onto an original
painting in much the same way as a collage, except the shape of the pasted
pieces are objects themselves - individual mosaic tiles. Each “tile” featuring
unique typography, texture or imagery of their own. Sandhi may embellish work
with paint, ink or other materials.
Inspiration
In Venice, She saw
a portrait made of tiny fragments of colorful glass.
It was too heavy to
carry by train, so she decided to make one
Her
Vision
To
perfectly join the disciplines of painting & mosaic to create a connected
collection
of representational
images in segments of color - utilizing resources that would otherwise go to
waste.
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