I once heard the answer to a question asked of an artist that I think, at this point, I will never forget. The question was, why do you create? The answer: I create to feel closer with myself. That answer gave me pause to realize that while artists are creating, they are connecting with themselves in ways that, possibly, only artists understand. That’s profound to me. I get to talk about that today with Calvin Hoff.
Calvin is a life-long Californian who, in his retirement, pursued his passion to create collage art. He collects old magazines, and carefully dissects them to create new, beautiful imageries. It would be a painstaking process for most of us but for Calvin, it’s right where he wants to be.
If you go to his website, scrapscollage.com, you have to remind yourself that what you are seeing is not a collection of paintings – those are all collages. Made from magazines!
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