During a tutorial Henrik Drescher was recommended to me and on looking at his website his work holds a significant quality which really interests me. Drescher says he is always aware to ‘image debris’, this phrase caught my attention since it demonstrates that a collage style is a constant process of pieces and bits that can be put together to form a whole piece at the end of the day. This is something which I need to begin, when I am creating a piece I find all my pieces then which gives it a less spontaneous quality and means that I take longer sitting and planning the piece. If i begin to collect interesting pieces then  I can sit and put together a piece with and element of spontaneity which I find it essential in my style or it becomes too held in and controlled. This is a point which my tutor made about my current work, that it is too controlled and needs to be freer in order to harness my style in the correct manner.  Therefore this idea of ‘image debris’ has a more sporadic connotation for my work.

Drescher sees his work as an ‘inventory of all that has ever existed in the course of organic history and human memory…scars, tattoos, cracks, memories, impressions, flashbacks, and forgotten instructions.”. I really like this idea of presenting the nitty gritty of human life, it is extremely fake and boring presenting something which is an altered and primped version of reality, there is nothing of interest in something like this, simply aesthetic value. I am victim to this sort of lifestyle through my own social media, however there is way more meaning to our lives than an edited Instagram photo. We have a story, our bodies have a story and so do the objects around us, our world is not linear, ‘organic history’ and ‘human memory’ constantly change and develop.

Going through his online portfolio his eclectic work filled my mind with so many ideas and images, the way that he blends his own drawn pieces with photographs and mark making works really well. Drescher’s work is interesting to me due to his play with illustrated figures. They are perched like little demons and the pieces which Drescher has used for the faces add to their slightly monstrous identities. The mixture of photographs and illustration is a mixture which brings more to the piece as it sets the parts apart. His work has a slightly darker side which is interesting and he is not afraid of the sexual since some of his pieces include sexual elements.

That is the main reason why Drescher’s work interests me, it is not clean, pristine and edited. This links into my idea of today’s society, everything is so edited out of what it naturally is, and I believe this is a bad way to present things to the human population, living of a world of make believe. Bringing things back to what they actually are and not being afraid to share the ugly and flawed. There is something beautiful in his work, you can see a history and a process in his free style. This is something which I need to work on in my own work, be less controlled and do what I feel since I believe that is the way to achieve a piece with meaning and a story.

These following images are the ones which caught my eye.