Cay's work is meticulous and precise. I love how he categorizes his works on his website, the collages in "landscape," "portrait," "nude," etc. Collage doesn't always make the ranks in the "fine art" world, but it is definitely a much stronger technique now than it was in the past. His beautiful nudes are just tiny little glimpses of skin.

Cay Schröder
www.cayschroder.com
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: An effort to visualize and reconstruct tingling thoughts.

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: From a Medical encyclopedia, to Vogue Italy. And from guides on trees to naughty magazines...

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: For about 3 years now. I started out as an industrial designer creating objects serving a 'purpace' within daily life (objects known as chairs, lamps etc). Therefore I had to use a lot of material. Over the years i noticed that a 'function', or the use of a lot of material wasn't necessary to trigger and excite the mind. Generating incentives by association is more than enough, or as K.Hara (Designing design, 2007) put it:

"To understand something is not to be able to define it or describe it. Instead, taking something that we think we already know and making it unknown thrills us afresh with its reality and deepens our understanding of it."

Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: Solo artist.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: Rietveld Academy (BA) and Sandberg Institute Amsterdam (MA).