jlhoffman art
"Enveloping Collections"
This is a photo of an installation I did in the Maine College of Art Merit Competition. The project is made of 163 unique design/collages created in an envelope shape, then installed in a giant grid. The artist statement is below:
"I have been avidly collecting a number of things for about three years now. This has ranged from books of old diagrams and illustrations, random interesting objects, and even colors.
This installation is a reinterpretation of that collection. Allowing myself to be a curator, artist and composer for this personal image bank, I question how to try and explain my own interest to the material to the viewer of this installation
The envelope shape, a universally known vessel for containing information, became a method for holding these collages of collected ephemera. Each envelope contains a truly unique composition that has its own interesting interactions and moments, and as a whole these individual pieces make a painterly “giant collage” that begins to take on an objective and textural quality.
I encourage you to look at this body of work in whatever way is interesting to you. From afar, close up, even shifting flaps to try out new combinations (please be gentle if you do move any of the letter flaps). I hope you find pleasure in making your own discoveries in these forms, patterns,colors, and imagery."
"Enveloping Collections"
This is a photo of an installation I did in the Maine College of Art Merit Competition. The project is made of 163 unique design/collages created in an envelope shape, then installed in a giant grid. The artist statement is below:
"I have been avidly collecting a number of things for about three years now. This has ranged from books of old diagrams and illustrations, random interesting objects, and even colors.
This installation is a reinterpretation of that collection. Allowing myself to be a curator, artist and composer for this personal image bank, I question how to try and explain my own interest to the material to the viewer of this installation
The envelope shape, a universally known vessel for containing information, became a method for holding these collages of collected ephemera. Each envelope contains a truly unique composition that has its own interesting interactions and moments, and as a whole these individual pieces make a painterly “giant collage” that begins to take on an objective and textural quality.
I encourage you to look at this body of work in whatever way is interesting to you. From afar, close up, even shifting flaps to try out new combinations (please be gentle if you do move any of the letter flaps). I hope you find pleasure in making your own discoveries in these forms, patterns,colors, and imagery."