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"The timelessness of art is when it transcends prior meanings and perceptions and be fresh the next day"
On March 31st 2005, I created a 9 by 12 inch collage using that day's local newspaper, and have continued that process without interruption every day since. The Collage Journal is now in its sixth year. I produce a collage every day solely created from the images and texts of that day's newspaper. The Journal's 1876 collages reside in over 156 Strathmore books. I have thus-far used 30 cutting boards and 215 Exacto blades, and 144 glues-sticks and cut myself twice. It has become integrated in my daily life as a meditation, contemplation and re-evaluation of culture and identity. The relentless stream of the media creates cultural tastes, fears and self-realization. My collages re-construct these perspectives creating new visual and sociological landscapes. I abstract small truths and intuitively build visual rhythms that imbue surreal narratives, humor and symbolism. These works say a lot about who I am, the world we live in, and how we perceive and process media.
Visit each of the complete first five years
* Read the New Jersey Monthly article (April 2010) about artist * Read The Montclair Times article (April 2010) about artist Peter Jacobs, who has been involved with the art of collage for over two decades has developed a complex visual language that seeks to reconcile the rational with the irrational. Jacobs' collages are usually comprised of spliced images applied to an architectonic framework. The stability of the architectural foundation allows him to juxtapose incongruous elements that, in spite of themselves, produce a singular cohesive vision. Instinctively the artist seems to assert the primacy of visual relationships over knowledge: in his world it is color, line and space, not reason, that are determinants of logic. The art of collage, as a reconfiguration of discarded images, is a medium destined to render order out of chaos. Jacobs has understood this inherent dilemna and resolves it in a manner that is decidedly postmodern. Passages of humor and wit, beauty and nature, psychology and rhetoric, coexist as a fragmented though unified whole. Indeed, Jacobs continues to reconsider the formal aspects of collage while adhering to the basic principles of its Cubist origins,as an ironic form of expression. Marina Delaney There is an inescapable momentum to this artist’s project, and part of the excitement of his work is the anticipation of what will come next; in the news, in the art, and on the imaginative plain where the two intersect......... Eve Schaenen Writer for The New York Times
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