Sandra Gea
Analogue collage & Illustration
Your personal mythology encapsulated in a unique collage artwork
"Myth, as the foremost exponent of mythology, is a dream everyone has, just as everyone also dreams her or his own personal myths: Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream." Joseph Campbell
In summer 2017, I met a very passionate art collector who challenged me to create analogue collages inspired by our conversations about art and being an artist in today's world. The artworks I delivered contained elements of myths I had intuitively added to the composition that, without me knowing it, resonated with the collector's personal journey.
Personal Mythologies were born from the impulse to encapsulate real lives stories into a mythological narrative and characterization.
Inspired by a keyword, a song, your origin story or just your full name, I will intuitively create a collage as a tribute to your path of life!
My offer:
Analogue collage on 250g acid free natural colored paper 14,8 x 21cm : 110 euro + shipment by registered post.
Concept and execution within 7 working days.
Send me your enquiry at embodied.collage.practices@gmail.com or fill in the contact form.
A personal mythology project : The Sphinx, the Labyrinth and the death of Sisyphus
“The Sphinx, the Labyrinth and the Death of Sisyphus” is a series of biographical analogue collages commissioned by a Swiss collector.
The series is nurtured in our conversations and an extensive correspondence about living one's individual mythology and finding freedom and meaning in one's artistic life. It aims at encapsulating a real life story into a mythological narrative and characterization inspired by the works of Harald Szeemann, Alberto Giacometti and Albert Camus that were often referred to in our exchanges.
The collages sampled below were commissioned separately and in real time between 2021 and 2023, each artwork therefore becoming the illustration of a chapter of the collector's life.
The collector would send me a keyword or a song title that I was left free to interpret intuitively. As the artist, I became the Sphinx, delivering a work rich with symbols, metaphors and puns; enigmas and hints towards potential answers to the conundrums of the mind, the complexity of human nature, artistic freedom and the ever returning question: what is the meaning and purpose of human existence?
