Florida-based artist Derek Gores creates these marvelous collage portraits using recycling magazines, labels, and other found materials.
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"I start with a photo shoot, play around deconstructing digitally, and then recreate the tones on canvas with aggressive textures from magazines, maps, song lyrics, etc."
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"I was the typical tight artist at age 17 but saw the light at the end of that particular tunnel when I was introduced to swashbuckling painters and talking trees and have been fleeing forward into looseness ever since."
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"I now like tools that are big and clumsy and open up the range of touch, including the process of ripping paper in collage. What I initially thought of as an academic exercise has become heavier and more real than anything else I’ve sunk my teeth into. I started with my love of the figure, the living breathing real thing, and with this fashion/ German expressionist aesthetic I get to mix in abstract art and shape play."
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Check his website: http://derekgores.com/
Source: Sour harvest
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"I start with a photo shoot, play around deconstructing digitally, and then recreate the tones on canvas with aggressive textures from magazines, maps, song lyrics, etc."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfcJJUQnO4mT9Fn2x_sTWeLlSBcrz-rcdSdVR36TU35n2u6vCj8NUWXfQDr_hvB470eKHjT4e0nXuo2CGHqZEZda5aGg150D5YE0be3otGDpnyYaYBFy1_rOHgt7AheD5QYv3eP8JcJ4/s1600/02.jpg)
"I was the typical tight artist at age 17 but saw the light at the end of that particular tunnel when I was introduced to swashbuckling painters and talking trees and have been fleeing forward into looseness ever since."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8uaCWrLC10KDNMAzV2ZM13qowuSlCxOCPLWyvnQXojy7pe40okT59rR1Q708oxn-dL_9e0raKFCiHM4_p3kxeNw7TDhGrDu1RqsMPk0ARFVhyVlBkrayI7JgHzHGUzad_H6p-bq_pj98/s1600/01.jpg)
"I now like tools that are big and clumsy and open up the range of touch, including the process of ripping paper in collage. What I initially thought of as an academic exercise has become heavier and more real than anything else I’ve sunk my teeth into. I started with my love of the figure, the living breathing real thing, and with this fashion/ German expressionist aesthetic I get to mix in abstract art and shape play."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTwYKI08q-raF8ahyphenhyphenDxLDWBL33ONM8v5F1nm-sK2fzgOQ0ZNFbNedghiA2TAQDXosiwyghpjgtpmpXi27OOvrwgdWG0nbuRgMKCJ8lEjN7tRpZRX6bNbYYwFC6Bqk3Wpz5AQNCE7KYHU/s1600/02.jpg)
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Check his website: http://derekgores.com/
Source: Sour harvest
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