Inspired by - collage, mixed media and mixed technique

INSPIRED BY is a series of collage, mixed media and mixed technique pieces based on the photograph of an unknown woman, taken by Alfred Henderson sometime between 1900 and 1917. I called her Elleree.

After almost a year of lockdowns, working from home, and ongoing and everchanging Covid restrictions, and after a couple of shorter creative projects that had kept me going, I had reached the point where both inspiration and motivation were as hard to come by as a dinner reservation at Monsieur Bleu (closed), a decently sized coffee at Starbucks (not within a one-kilometer radius), sunshine (winter), or a chance to leave the city (not allowed). So, in order to make myself work and thereby keep the last bit of sanity and mental equilibrium left to me, I decided to give myself a creative challenge that would be both easy and difficult at the same time: a simple enough premise that, if need be, will allow me to work without any emotional investment nor the need to come up with my own ideas, but a big enough scope to experiment, learn, and step out of my comfort zone – eventually and/or occasionally.