for louis renard and emily noyes vanderpool

Anthony Santulli

blocker

Anthony Santulli

isometrica

Anthony Santulli

Artist’s Statement

These collages aim to challenge and recontextualize our visual language by layering fragments of images from a wide spectrum of artists, disciplines, and time periods. The final results are composites of public domain etchings, data visualization graphs, architecture blueprints, modernist paintings, handwritten letters, biology textbook illustrations, musical scores, textile samples, and whatever else might catch my eye throughout the day.

What attracts me to an image is not its reason for existing, but its potential for change. I am interested in the ways different types of media can communicate with each other across space and time, and I use this as a springboard for making unexpected connections. While the origins of my collages begin to reveal themselves when zoomed in, what appears at first glance is a unified system composed of various disembodied marks, scratches, symbols, stains, and strokes that appear both organic and artificial. My process merges my love for erasure, marginalia, intersections, and memory to produce upcycled works that react to this generation’s exhaustion from constant exposure to profit-driven content by promoting a sense of visual exploration and discovery.

About the artist