This is my second experiment with 3D collage, a fancy new name I coined to describe some of the work I’m doing these days. Since I’ve always had a fascination with cards, I decided to use Queen of Spades and King of Diamonds. King, however couldn’t quite work as well as the Queen, so I left him out of the picture. She’s alone, in the space where urban jungle and nature wage war.

A few days back, on my way back from the studio in Dumbo, I spotted yet another amazing stencil by C215, this time on the wall and the doorway. I absolutely love his work and now I’m starting to wonder if he lives somewhere in the area.

I recently came across some beautiful 3d pop-up book collage, which served as an inspiration for this piece. I have been struggling to get a bit more dimension in my work, and this does the trick. I arranged the elements against flat backgrounds, and taped them on top of one another to give an illusion of depth.

The idea for this collage was “around the world”. I tried to play with perspective a bit more. I used a lot of photos from flickr that had unusual angle and tried to rearrange them to follow a spiral path created by the stairway. I added a bit more color with balloons, and also to break up the composition.

For this piece I experimented with acrylics and collage. I tried to give the work a bit of depth by layering photos on top of each other. I really like how white elements pop in all the color.

Second collage from my new studio space.

I spotted this today, on my way to the studio. One of my fave street artists, C215, stenciled a mailbox in Dumbo (corner of Jay & Front St). It made my day. I wonder how long it’s been there?

A new collage from my new studio.

Cherry Blossom in Prospect Park.