Susan Miiller

I use the medium of collage to create poetry from the commonplace. I am fascinated by fragments of once beautiful, precious natural objects such as paint, handmade papers, drawings, antique papers, maps, sheet music, foil, text and images from old books, invented and xeroxed textures, color micrographs and anything else to create my unique mixed media collages. Most of the images for my collages come together in a random way while exploring and inventing composition. As in the collage aesthetic underlying Surrealism, the pun, automatism and the element of chance play a role in these works. I also rely on the Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition and on the evocation of nostalgia. I frequently use natural objects and other three-dimensional objects I find during my plein-air painting trips. My plein-air paintings are thickly painted, direct observations of nature while the raw materials of my collages are highly charged with personal and psychological energy..

Email Id : susanmiiller@yahoo.com

Contact Number : 845 8002041