Creativity happens when a certain artist make use of the few materials he has. To be able to create something beautiful is not about the quantity, but of the quality. If most artists spends so much money to buy each of their needed paraphernalia, some would stick to what they just have rather than to things they don’t. Because for them, at the end of the story, it’s their product that measures, and not the process.
Take an English artist Jamie Poole for instance. Like many artists, he knows how to blend creativity with imagination, but Poole has something different from other artists. Instead of using pencil and paint to stroke anatomy of his subject, he uses shredded textbooks of poems and novels. He carefully take put the shredded pieces in each of his canvass. Moreover, every portrait he made is related to the text it’s made up of.
This particular self-portrait (his image) is composed of the love letters and poems the artist’s fiancé wrote him over the course of two years.
“As text is layered the words, lines and phrases are repeated and embedded into the work creating a unifying physicality.” Poole said.
