Woefoep (b.1973) - aka Mark Wouters. Schiedam, Netherlands.
Mark Wouters started making collages at the age of 14 when he was exchanging funny, collage like letters with a friend. Later, during his studies at the Willem de Kooining Academy in Rotterdam, his main interest became three dimensional assemblages in the tradition of Joseph Cornell's boxes, in which he used old screws, bolts, rocks, shells, insects and much more.

Working as an illustrator he used digital collage techniques for producing 3D computer models, attracted by the unlimited opportunities of the medium. But still he sees handmade cut'n'paste collages as the bigger challenge and the richer experience, both in creating and in viewing. Woefoep's passion for collecting all things nice and rare is not limited to real objects but embraces all sorts of images he can find on the net as well, which he then assembles to digital collages.

Sometimes he uses a collage as a starting point for a painting but mostly he works on many different collages at the same time, changing and rearranging their elements, keeping them open for change for as long as possible until in the end he achieves his stated objective of "triggering something alien."