Collage / Illustration

Collages Split Someone’s Head Open with Beautiful Results

laurindo feliciano

Vin­tage books, mag­a­zines, and post­cards inspire Brazil­ian artist and illus­tra­tor Lau­rindo Feli­ciano. Using these ele­ments, he cre­ates images that are both sur­re­al and nos­tal­gic. The com­bi­na­tion (and often col­li­sion) of peo­ple, flo­ra, and fau­na result in pic­tures that we’ve nev­er seen before.

Lau­rindo’s arrange­ments are mys­te­ri­ous, beau­ti­ful, and weird, like when he splits open some­one’s head to reveal a bou­quet of flow­ers. Stuff like that is what makes pho­to­graph­ic col­lages great. Pho­tog­ra­phy grounds things in (our) real­i­ty, but these types of works turn it on its head using sim­ple-but-clever manipulations.

PS! I found Lau­rindo’s work via the Brown Paper Bag sub­mis­sions page.

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