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Canadian Artist Viet Tran celebrates both chaos and orders through his painterly paper collages. Tran used collage as an art therapy during his two years in Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia. Tran has resettled in Victoria BC Canada since June 1, 1987. As a pure paper collage artist, Tran does not apply type of paint on his collage.
Website: www.papercollage.ca
Blog: http://viettrancollage.blogspot.com/
Email: vietcollage@hotmail. com
Studio: 3217 Irma St. Victoria, BC, Canada.
EXHIBITIO NS:
1988/1989 X-Changes Gallery, Victoria, BC
1990 BC Royal Museum 1991 University of Victoria.
1990-2000: Annual Immigrant Art Shows
2008 Victoria Public Library
2008: CAC Gallery, Victoria, BC
UNIQUE PAPER COLLAGE
Tran has a very unique technique which he calls "paint with paper". He patiently glues many layers of thousands of tiny coloured pieces directly ripped from magazines for each collage.
ART THERAPY
An art viewer may take a close look at Tran’s collages to detect movements, a chaotic world of colors, and shapes from messy layers of pieces of ripped magazines rebelliously fighting against each other. However, as the art viewer slowly steps backward about 10 feet away to have a “macro-look”, the collages gradually reveal its order, light, depth, energy, uniqueness, and beauty. The art viewer can change perspective and feeling through the artistic transformation of these collages by repeating the “zoom-in-and-out” process for a couple of times. Art viewers can find stillness and calmness within themselves through this process.
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scottmartinlocke -
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scottmartinlocke -
i want you to connect with "Gunsaku"
this is something he wrote.
here it is..........
Dear Scott,
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th egreatillusion.com
haiku
senryu
rensa ku
gunsaku
haikudo
new_haiku_challeng e
haiku from between
shihan
act ive reason
metahaiku
m etaku
eupholome
do ctor evolution
pacific anodyne
abecedarian
brother other
pentaku
haij in x
shibboleth et cetera
j e peele
jaey peele
I'm the only Jaey Peele to be found in Google.
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...and everybody laughed...
Hey, Scott
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Scott Martin,
I hope these words bring
Peace, Love, and Understanding
to you and yours,
Sincerely,
Your Dear Friend,
J.E.
"Guns aku"
:8^D
Jaey Peele
this person is very talanted.
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scottmartinlocke -
1/1/10 believe it
10/10/10 will be
1/1/11 is coming
how can we ...
what will we do ...
is this just a dream ...
no, reality is real
what our mind tells us
we can't tell
11/11/11 what will be
12/21/12
i'll be 55 years old
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scottmartinlocke -
i made a phone call from the moon;
back to mother Earth
tera firma
and she heard
my calling
understandi ng
let the phone ring
without reply
oh' why
don't you answer
she replied
your not listening
i am with you
always
call me
in your mind
and i will reply.
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Dustin -
How are you doing today good sir?
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scottmartinlocke -
the mind wonders
the mind wanders;
and always goes home to rest
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scottmartinlocke -
on writing: not simple really
we have to find simplicity
in the complexity of life
to save our own rationality
the dust we stir
only clouds the truth we seek
its sparkle separates it
so by mid day
we just have to laugh
because we realize we don't know it all
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scottmartinlocke -
The samuri thinks of all things out of necessity,the past,present and future;
they are all one.
Infinity, eternity are consumed by time
you will get lost without a guide
so says the Great Spirit.
Where will you go first when you enter
thru the gates
of the other side of nature.
Still so much to learn
think of our capacities and abilities
they pass without exception
along with inspiration.
At the enterance of etrnity
is this great something filled
with nothing at all but spiritand soul.
You become just a thought
in this great consciousness
the collective whole of everything.
The Samuri faces the event horizon
straight away and seeks for
the harmony promised him.
The Samuri walks a fine line
on the edge
with perfect balance.
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Tran's Collage Technique
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(This section was written in reply to requests from viewers who wanted to know the process of how Tran's "looked-like-paintin g" collage is created).
Tran has a unique collage technique which he calls "paint with paper". Each collage is a combination of many layers of thousands of tiny coloured pieces directly ripped from magazines.
Tran's collage process is very simple. He applies the same painting techniques as an oil/acrylic painter normally does. He starts with a sketch (in pencil). Then, he "paints" it over and over with tiny pieces of colours ripped directly from magazines. As a painter does with a painting, Tran keeps applying many layers of torn colours on a collage until he is happy with the piece or until he wrecks it and throws it away.
It is a very tricky and slow process which takes time, patience, and mind concentration. Finding the right pieces of colours from stacks of magazines for a collage is very challenging. It is important to emphasize that Tran's unique collage technique is an art of therapy. One may need to practice Zen or meditation to enjoy this creative process. He/she can find stillness, calmness, and peace after getting used to this type of slow process. The one who focuses too much on the outcomes will quit it because she/he does not enjoy participating in the process.
As Human-beings enjoy their living process, artists enjoy their creative process. While living process hits its dead end - the unavoidable death, the creative process ends up in many amazing artworks for viewers to enjoy for centuries.
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