Digital Collage










For this collage, I experimented with the app Pixelcut, combining photos of my sketchbook with two older photographs I had on hand. The central image is a postcard I bought at a flea market in Belgrade, and the image on the right is a photograph my grandmother took while traveling in India. I enjoyed using the app to layer my drawings onto these landscapes, playing with scale and composition. I found this process to feel very free and uninhibited, which speaks to the potential of digital collage. Unlike traditional mediums, digital planes and objects are easily adjustable. In painting, composition is often where I feel most stuck, as decisions can be difficult to undo once they are made. By layering different forms such as photographs and paintings, I believe each medium gains new life through the other. This process has made me curious about other combinations that could be explored through digital collage and how they might change the way we think about different mediums, for instance combining printmaking and food packaging, combining paintings of birds with nature photography, or combining film stills with pencil sketches.









 


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  1. Kate ScottApril 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM

    Hey Mila! I enjoyed seeing this piece the first time you showed us in class, and I wanted to revisit it. I completely agree with you that digital collage is freeing when it comes to composition. I love the way that in spite of it being a digital collage, your hand still shows up, and its your mark-making that gives all three panels a cohesive feeling. I would be super interested to see a piece that combines printmaking and food packaging!

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