Josey on the Rocks by Geoff Kim

“I use mostly National Geographic magazines and vintage art books to recreate scenes from my own unconscious. To me, the older media is chalk full of beautiful images that represent the visual culture of a past that is mostly lost in a digital landscape. Bringing these images to life in a new form is the most rewarding act. The act of cutting and pasting, to me, brings back a sense of intent and meaningfulness to the collage medium in that once a piece is cut or pasted together, it’s done- there is no reshaping, editing, fine-tuning as one would do on photoshop or illustrator. Sometimes you can lose so much of your initial creative capacity when you tinker with an image too much or rely on external tools to help you.”

Born in Northern California, Geoff Kim is an artist recently graduated from Eugene Lang College of New School University and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. His collage and mixed media work aims to build unseen and untold visual narratives as well as address the impact of visual culture itself in a globalized society. Juxtaposing new and old, Geoff uses found print material to merge popular visual culture of previous ‘present’ moments with images of contemporary visual culture creating a merger of time and worlds.

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