Before 'bandage,' I made art with insects collaged to paper with glue and glass cover-slips, normally used to prepare microscope slides. The first bandage was a collage with transparent-tape and mosquitoes, Swat, 2008. When making art while living with small children, tape is safer and more convenient than glue and thin wafers of glass. I make my art on the dinning room table.
Newspaper-bandage is an analog sampling technique, archaic in our digital age of Photoshop and remixes. It reminds me of painting. The fist newspaper sample was an accident; the experiments with bandage and news photos continue. The art of Ernst, Picasso, de Konning, Hockney and Jess is inspiring.
I'm conscious of the topographic layers of tape, bas-relief sculpture; I'm making an object and an image. The incidental prints and smudgy auras from my inky fingers, a type of drawing, are an important record of working with newspapers.
