ISSUE NO. 1 • CHARLES WILKIN

ISSUE NO. 1 • OCTOBER 17TH, 2022 • CHARLES WILKIN

Tears Dry Naturally in the Sunlight, 2022
Paper collage

CHARLES WILKIN

Designer, collage artist, and beekeeper Charles Wilkin creates surreal artworks built from scraps and fragments of vintage magazines and photographs. His purposeful juxtapositions of figure and fabric disrupt, hide and conceal the identities of his subjects. Charles says, “My work is essentially a product of its environment revised daily through a compound perspective of suspicion, conviction, and my obsession with the idyllically mundane. What remains, I hope, is a deconstructed record of our existence.”

The Time It Takes is a Reasonable Expectation for Superstition, 2022
Paper collage

When I Die My Ashes Will Sparkle in the Sunlight, 2020
Paper collage

My work is a loose collection of thoughts and observations in many ways and less about one specific theme. I see it as being a reflection of the world we live in, with all its ugliness and cruelty. But from that, I strive to extract the beauty and empathy hidden underneath and within us all, revealing the unknown, the unspoken and intangible things that make us truly human. For me, collage as a medium replicates this frenetic and inherent collision of people, culture, and emotions we all experience. I believe the true meaning of my work is derived directly from the intertwining of these associations, and the spontaneity of my creative process.

Charles Wilkin

I’ve Been Missing You The Pink The Orange So True, 2022
Paper collage

Do Everything Feel Nothing, 2022
Paper collage

Charles Wilkin was born in 1969 in Buffalo, New York. He currently lives and works in Narrowsburg, New York.

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Today's issue of Collé was curated by Mario Zoots and produced by Lewis Caldwell.

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