I keep making personalized collages as birthday presents for good friends

Final piece

I really enjoy making a collage for friends. They choose their own images and I connect those images creating something new.

One year ago, this pandemic started and I found myself with a lot of time in my hands. I have over 20 collages at home.

I’ve been able to collect so many images coming from magazines, paper wraps, postcards, old photos, which is a fun process for people to choose from.

This is how it started for my good friend B:

Of course, a good joint and some Lambrusco are part of the scene.

Those are 3 recycled boxes I have collected from old cigars, and now they are the keepers of some of the material. I have been carrying them since 2013 and I have used them for different things.

She goes through first the postcards, I write down things that she says to remember what got her attention the most.

I get amazing material from thrift stores, for example, “Mercat dels Encants ” in Barcelona. Like this 2014 agenda with Dali work, one of my most precious findings. The postcards are from my travelling, back in the day when we could travel as we wish!

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She chooses as many as she wants. After going through those 3 boxes, there´s more material which is uncut yet.

So after we go through all the material, she chooses the size and the type. She said she wanted a medium size with an asymmetric form.
Then, I start my part:

I usually I do it at night, or sometimes on weekends. First, I display all of the images and I read the notes I took from when she was choosing them.

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After going through what I had, I wanted to create something earthy, like a mountain with water.

She chose many phrases, lots of images of glasses and drinks, and I wanted to be able to use them all.

I like to make it fun, I cut things smaller and smaller to be able to make it look like one.

Recharging with a good joint. Lately, I have been smoking half THC with half CBD.

I keep adding details and then I taped them so secure them

Recharging with my amazing vegan smoothie

On the back, I make something so it can be hung on the wall as well.

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I also added a list of the images I used. My hand writing is terrible, I should probably do it differently soon.

This is already hanging on my friend´s wall

Bottom left of the collage

Lower center

Upper center

I’m on this collage along with the birthday girl

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