Serge's collages are quite beautiful. Their emotion and feeling remind me a lot of Eduardo Recife's work, but they have a unique aura about them. I enjoy the nuances of tone in each piece of detail, the soft grays and pinks and yellows, etc. I am excited to see where he goes with these collages!

Name (Real or Screename): Serge
URL (Blog, Website): www.flickr.com/photos/hologramxx, xmilkyboy.livejournal.com
Location (Where are you from?): Málaga, Spain

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: A moment, expression, feelings, thoughts, chaos, organized, contradiction, design...

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: I work with a great variety of resources. Photography, illustration, magazines, textures, among others things… I’ve been also collecting for some years little details, for example tickets of everything; I try to use everything I can and it’s funny. I often prefer old stuff, but sometimes I prefer to take commercial stuff and change radically the look.

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I love drawing and painting since I was a child, when I was 12 or so I started to play and experiment with some kind of collage with Photoshop. But it wasn’t until some years ago, when I really found out what collage meant, then I became very fascinated about it and I began to try making some. I’m taking it seriously so recently, though.

Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: Well I am a graphic designer.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: I’ve just discovered some interesting techniques and a new vision while I was in painting classes a long time ago. But I really use my design knowledge and it is as useful as nice. I even adore looking at true artists, who I really appreciate, and their work, so I can learn a lot.

Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: I don’t have just one in particular. I enjoy making as digital as handmade collages, I love both, each one give me different things and techniques. I’m very versatile with it in this case, I can get very contradictory collages. My favourite part is the experiment definitely. I usually think the most beautiful of making collages is you’re never sure of what the final result will be, it’s full of surprise, spontaneity, creativity and evolution.

Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: It’s hard to say. Sometimes you have some favourite creations which are more special than others for different reasons, but it’s inevitable not to fall in love with the last. I can’t even say just one, all of them are a piece of me.

Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: I admire a lot of people who make collages or use other artistic ways to express themselves, they are a huge inspiration for me, I try to keep them and take the opportunity to follow their work closely. I’m an art lover, each art style has something I could use. There are so many good artists through history...

Thanks Serge!