Adam Strange – Bird Watching in Gaza

Description

Artist Statement

Adam’s artwork explores the zozobra in a suture zone, through the medium of digital painting and photomontage. Collage is a means to express the workings of the unconscious mind or as a political or social act of protest.
Collage makes clear the disparate parts of images used, that when coupled together, a new reality previously unknown arises. Montage is the painting, suturing and layering of multiple parts to create a single unified image, thereby emphasizing the final image’s “reality” rather than the procedures and materials of its creation. Photos
from a variety of sources, including the artist’s, brings realism, clarity and relevance to contemporary themes of corruption, war crimes, disease and greed. Images appear as “real” as the photographic material they are based on, but now embody a reality of their own. By turns, demanding, fearful, and disorienting. They are apt representations of the times we live in.