Kirsten Niegel

Hamburg, Deutschland

Collages have always fascinated me, whether they have a realistic or surrealistic/abstract background.

Every artwork is the base for a new artwork. What does this mean?

I modify the original photo with the tools of a photo program, especially colour and light effects but also image details. The results are different pictures, showing the same scene but in a completely different mood.
Combining all these single photos in a new photo collage I receive an interesting pattern.

Besides the mixed material collages in the first step I also discovered that especially simple („boring“) things like a teapot or a salt shaker can be set into a completely new artificial scenery by colour and light effects and reveal an extraordinary pattern.