Randy Mora (b.1986), Bogotá, Columbia
Just a year ago a friend of Randy Mora showed him some paintings: “I got so excited about his work that I just needed to do something similar. But I didn’t have the knowledge, so I took some old magazines and books that someone had thrown away and started to experiment. Since then I haven’t been able to stop.”

Randy is attracted to the romantic idea of rescuing things forgotten, daily paraphernalia out of context and giving them a new purpose in new surroundings. “That’s what excites me the most about collage. When I face a work made out of diverse elements, I have the urge to get closer and just touch it. While a painting requires a certain distance and a contemplative posture, collage on the other hand, is more an intimate experience, less ceremonial.”

Randy’s collages develop from ideas he first puts down in small sketches. During the process, however, many variables lead him to other solutions far from the original idea. He usually works in Photoshop, scanning the pictures he needs. Each one of them has its own history; “the key is to know how to organize them into a solid concept. I don’t like to rush things.”

With his transition to digital collage he has been able to compose, resize, control color etc. which helps him to get closer to what he has in mind.