For a special project I used cardboard cut outs that I had worked on with oil pastels to create composition possibilities. The cardboard cut outs look almost better than the paintings themselves. These mixed media compositions would become an entire series onto themselves, and offer a hint to what I might pursue in the future. Because my paintings seems to prioritize figures on a background - collaging of pieces onto a background seems to make sense. They have such great energy, feel spontaneous and have a rich dynamic surface. To create them I would throw them onto paper on the floor from far away and let them randomly fall where they may rather than carefully place them intentionally. One can tell, of course, that some elements such as the blue wavy bits have been set where they are. I had to add some order to the chaos so that they would feel balanced. The process opened me up to different compositional arrangements.
I was inspired by the work of John Cage and other artists that introduce randomness and chance into their work.