Adriana creates vintage, Dada-esque, wonderfully surreal photomontages, and some of them are so Dada inspired I almost believe they came from the same time period! Her artwork tells offbeat tales of bunnies and... lobster women? And I'm loving it.
Name (Real or Screename): Adriana Petit
URL (Blog, Website): adrianapetit.weebly.com
Location (Where are you from?): Spain
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Dreams-Nightmares, Humans-Animals, Future-Past, Black-White, Shine-Darkness, City-Nature, Noise-Silence, Chaos-Harmony.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: I use all of theme, not at random but in an obsessive selection.
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I've been doing collages since 2004, after a personal and intense trip to Buenos Aires when I was in my rented house with all the stuff that I was collecting while walking around Buenos Aires. This is one of my methods now because I enjoy the collage process so much.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I don't have any specific profession, not yet. I'm a person with a lot of necessity to do art in all the ways which I can. I love music, and I try to develop this more with www.myspace.com/musofantasma, but the images are my speciallity in some things. I write, I live, I hate, I laugh, I think and the art is a reflection of my life.
A: I'm not an academic follower, I believe in freedom, I left it up to the people.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Collage.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: I can't imagine that piece, but I'll do that piece surely.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Joel Peter Witkin, Diane Arbus, Genesis P. Orridge, Ian Curtis, Pedro Amodio, Dalí, Burroughs, Cortázar, Mark. E. Smith, Beethoven, Carlos Saura, Godard, Jarmush, Keneth anger, Carmen Burguess, , Hieronymus Bosch, Buñuel, Piazzola, Tomás Nochteff, Mia Makila, Nico, Maureen Tucker, Billie Holliday, Anna Karina, Passolini, myself...
Thanks Adriana!