CHRIS REEVES

The Continuing Story of a Soft Ascension into Cast Off Situations is an ongoing, to never be "finished," collage series. It is semi-narrative cheap (less fiscally (but not always) than characteristically (but not always)) neo-surrealism, occupied by a large cast of recurring motifs & figures/characters, each supported by their own shifting symbolic meaning or lack thereof. These works largely avoid backgrounds or landscapes in the hope of keeping their pictorial status less as "scenes" and more as situations. The collage method I employ does not necessarily follow the standard found image juxtaposition, but instead borrows a page from Matisse's late art arthritic playbook: use large found blocks of color (always look for large format inexpensive magazines) to create the visual image.