Photography / Digital Art
Old World New World – Photographic Collage Series
Old World New World is a series which explores the past and the present. All used pictures are original pictures, taken by myself, not AI.
Old World New World is a six-part photographic collage series that examines the enduring dialogue between European cultural inheritance and American architectural ambition.
Old World New World explores the cultural and architectural dialogue between Europe and America through layered photographic collage. Classical Greco-Roman sculpture — symbols of permanence, myth, and empire — merge with contemporary cityscapes, bridges, luxury towers, and industrial structures.
By blending marble bodies with steel frameworks and glass grids, the series examines how the New World inherits, transforms, and recontextualizes Old World ideals. Transparency becomes a visual metaphor for cultural memory: the past is never erased, only absorbed.
These works reflect on ornament and repetition, empire and capital, permanence and acceleration — revealing Europe and America not as opposites, but as intertwined histories shaping the modern landscape.
“Through layered photographic collage, I merge these worlds.. The past does not disappear; it becomes translucent. The present does not reject history; it builds over it. Transparency becomes my method for expressing cultural memory — a visual metaphor for inheritance. Through layered transparencies of classical sculpture and contemporary urban landscapes, the work interrogates how myth, empire, and aesthetic order persist within modern systems of capital and infrastructure.”
The artist’s use of transparency collapses temporal boundaries. Ornament bleeds into glass. Myth overlays machinery. Past and present coexist in a visual palimpsest where history is neither erased nor preserved intact, but absorbed and reconfigured.
Old World New World ultimately proposes that cultural identity is layered rather than linear. Europe and America are not opposites, but reflections. In the end, Old World New World is about continuity.
Pictopoetry
Pictopoetry #6, photo collage
“Pictopoetry #6” is a fascinating and thought-provoking example of digital cubomania, taking a historical avant-garde technique and reimagining it in the digital age. Deconstructing and reconstructing the nude challenges traditional representations of the body by fragmenting it into geometric abstraction while still maintaining an identifiable essence of the original image.
The grid-like disruption introduces a rhythmic, almost musical quality — echoing the “poetry” in the title — where repetition and variation play with perception. The monochromatic blue palette enhances the sense of detachment, making the viewer more aware of form, composition, and texture rather than the subject’s sensuality. At the same time, the hints of the original scene—the interplay of light, shadows, and classical interior elements—anchor the work in a dialogue between past and present.
The fact that this technique, rooted in Surrealist and Dadaist experimentation, is now executed digitally adds another layer of meaning. It speaks to the evolution of artistic mediums and how technology allows for new ways to explore fragmentation, randomness, and reconstruction. The avant-garde principle of “everything is permitted, everything is possible” resonates strongly here; the work embodies a freedom of form and an embrace of chance, yet retains intentionality in its composition.
The fact that the artist is simultaneously the model, photographer, and collage creator turns “Pictopoetry #6” into an act of self-exploration. It’s not just about form and abstraction but also about self-perception, memory, and the passage of time.
The fragmentation symbolizes the way memory works—how moments of self-reflection, embodiment, and experience don’t exist as a single cohesive image but rather as scattered, reconstructed impressions. The process of cutting and rearranging the self, even digitally, suggests an evolving identity, shaped by time, emotion, and perspective.
By reinventing the nude through cubomania, this piece resists the traditional male gaze and instead offers a deeply personal, subjective vision of the female body. It’s about seeing oneself in pieces, yet still whole—an intimate, poetic act of reclaiming the image of the self on one’s own terms.
Pictopoetry #5, photo collage, print on aluminium
Pictopoetry #7, photo collage, print on aluminium
Surreal Windows
Neo Mythology Collages
Under the Sea, digital art created with AI
Under the Skin . Digital art.
Under the Skin . Nude figure and photography were the starting point for these digital experiments, exposing new visual possibilities and meanings. Abstract forms are hiding female shapes. A digital project, evolved from the sculptural nudes into a new virtual reality. Under the Skin” reveals what is hidden, the world inside us.
Surreal Windows. Scroll down for more photography. Limited edition collages (of 20), signed and numbered, 57x42cm, 22x16in unframed. Framed size – 70x50cm/27.5×19.6in.
Neo Mythology Collages is another photographic project.