Call it Paper Mosaic, call it Recycle Art, call it Mixed Media, call it Papier Collé... it's Fine Art by Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Papier Collé:
An art form that combines traditional painting with paper. Similar to a collage, a Papier Collé composition utilizes only a variety of papers - pasted directly onto a painting on canvas or wood.
Sandhi transforms her original paintings into fascinating Papier Collé Mosaic Portraits. A unique expression of this art form; espeically as she utilizes paper that would otherwise go to waste. Sandhi's work graces the walls of private collectors' homes, is featured in numerous corporate collections as well as permanent museum collections.
If a picture is worth a thousand words... these are made from thousands more.
"My work reflects society's obsession with beauty in advertising; images that bombard us daily. I appropriate those images and reuse the advertising vehicle as well. My paper mosaics are a purposeful intermix of advertising messages - junk mail, postcards, etc. that arrive through my mailbox. I hand cut, sort and manipulate thousands of pieces; images and text - to assemble a mosaic portrait. I create a new image of beauty - an eclectic and tactile portrait redrawn and reworked in my imagination, utilizing materials that would otherwise go to waste."
- Sandhi Schimmel Gold
"My Resting Place"
24x24"
In response to recent tragedies in Bangladesh, and harsh working conditions throughout the world, this piece - considers the price of profit... women's lives. Inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and a haunting song, "Mayn Rue Plats" it features my signature mosaic portrait, "ghost" images of actual victims, charred photos, chain, pins, measuring tape, locks and the original Yiddish poem handwritten in the background.
Read more HERE for the full backstory, history behind the fire and links to the song. |
 "My Resting Place"
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"Peor Es Nada" |
"Peor Es Nada"
24x36"
Is our identity defined by our selves or by society? The true story behind the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins" is tragic for Karana. A native woman, who managed to survive alone on an island for 18 years is "rescued" by ship. She wears her cape, made from cormorant feathers and not much more. However, her happy ending is not so joyous. After her delivery to the church, our heroine is baptized without her knowledge, given a new name, a new identity. The new diet also gives her dysentery, and she is dead with 3 weeks, buried in an unmarked grave. The ship, "Peor es Nada" translates to "Better than nothing." Was it?
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