ANTHONY ZINONOS created several collage pieces to be used for the release of Propeller late last year (see above with the Bear). Subsequent to seeing how his work alters and shifts to the brief at hand, whilst always staying true to that unique style of his, it is perhaps safe to say the gent is worth at least five minutes of your time. So please allow your self to render and process the brilliance of composition and colour inherent in his pieces.
But perhaps a slight digression first…
Regarding the acquisitions of taste, we cannot help but process the aesthetics of an image without using a quantitive level of comparison - what we decide is ‘good’ must obviously be weighed up by our own judgements of what is determined as ‘bad’. One must be marginalized like day over the night, toffee popcorn over salt, film over digital, or downloads over vinyl…
With this in mind, whilst browsing the ‘goods’ (as it were) of Zinonos’ website/blog, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the notion of comparitive sense. For example, when compared to the ever increasing stream of illustrators losing their grip on the pen to paper technique and growing dependent on using the palette of colour wheel in photoshop CS3 as opposed to their minds, Zinonos keeps it tight with the material basics of a scalpel, glu, crayons and cut up images elusively found from books bought in dusty lofts.
It is after all, the unique imagination of Zinonos we see splattered above our screens above that is in need of celebrating. Return to our creative roots perhaps? Fish out the crayons.
Who knew the relative process of creating imagery so simplistic yet tangible could be so powerful and pleasing on the minds eye?
