David Thorpe
Forever
1998, Paper Collage
36 x 145cm |
David
Thorpe’s collages present a spiritual chic of urban romanticism:
inner city buildings rendered desolate and magnificent, are
contemplations of the individual vs. the universe. This ‘power-of-one’
conviction is replicated through Thorpe’s intensive process:
each element is painfully stencilled with a penknife, and
assembled with mind-boggling accuracy. Through his process,
Thorpe exemplifies the ability to create beauty from sheer
will; macrocosms snipped from craft paper, the bedazzling
sight of council flats on a still night. In a car passing
over the bridge, Thorpe silhouettes a tiny group of partying
teenagers: a tribute to dandyism and eternal youth. |