The Berlin-based American artist and poet Ryan Nash views creation as a constant combining and re-combining of existing images in order to produce something new and true to the moment. Whether those images exist in the mind as language or through the eye as visual compositions, the process and the project to him are much the same. “For me it’s all about taking two or three things that don’t normally belong together, and holding them up in the right light and at the right distance — until something sparks.”
Recently he has been working primarily in the medium of paper collage. He gets his images mostly from magazines found on the street or in discount bins, or given to him by friends and neighbors. “I think I could spend the rest of my life as a gatherer. It is my preferred state. Things call to me. I try to source from current and localized imagery because I want to say something about the time and place I live in.”
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