Artist's Corner: Kremena Dimitrova - Blogpost 6

Follow Kremena's journey into the 50 Jewish Objects in this sixth blogpost.

Each comic strip pillar employs different comics devices, such as panels, speech bubbles and juxtaposing and layering of words and images in various ways. Each comic strip pillar also draws on and is inspired by different sections of the manuscript. I used (digital) collage techniques for the creation of the comic strips pillars which, in my view, correspond to historical fragmentation. 

I have been employing digital collage within my illustration practice for a long time now. I enjoy the creativity and the element of surprise when engaging in collage making and the non-linearity of the medium (against the linearity of historical representation and the linearity of reading the manuscript itself). I enjoy playing with different pieces and fragments which I can arrange and rearrange over and over to create diverse outcomes; art (as well as history) results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole or many new wholes each time. 

Below are time-lapses of my creative process (digitally collaging the comic strip pillars) using Adobe Photoshop (imaging and graphic design software which is at the core of just about every one of my creative projects).