Axelle Kieffer

Organic Composition I

Handcut collage on back cover of record box

14 x 12.5”

2021

$500

“For a long time, my collages featured more figurative anatomical elements. Yet as I was working on those collages, I started to look at the discarded elements from my cuts, scattered across the table and floor. Those remaining shapes and colors became inadvertent arrangements and harmonious patterns. I became an observer. I began to see their potential as organic compositions in their own right, as interesting as the deliberately constructed interplays I had done before. I found myself shying away from the figurative elements to focus essentially on abstract compositions. Using cuts from body parts to create grotesque hybrids seems to aim to a new world concealing art, science and poetry. ( This piece is my very first Organic Composition.)”