Clare Celeste Börsch is a Berlin-based collage artist and professional illustrator. She has recently completed five new series, just in time for Spring.
Intimate Immensity, a work in progress, is inspired by Gaston Bachelard's book The Poetics of Space. The chapter Intimate Immensity writes "The Mind sees and continues to see objects, while the spirit finds the nest of immensity in an object." The series is inspired by the imagined vastness hidden in unopened boxes, small shells, unturned stones.
Lush Summer are large format analog collages, 70x100cm, created from found images, hand cut and glued onto thick archival card stock. They imagine a lush midsummer as seen through the eyes of a child. The green and humid embrace of a summer spent outdoors in water and foliage.
North Sea is a series of mixed media (analog and digital composite) collages on found book pages. Original pages came from a discarded book on the North Sea found in the ground floor of our Berlin flat. The intent was to reimagine the poetic meanings of the texts, divorced from the accompanying photos and remarried with new imagery. The unexpected dialog between my collage and the preexisting text guided the series.
The Wild Beyond pairs found black and white photos, often of moments of leisure, with Hubble satellite imagery. The intent behind this series is to contrast the fleeting moments of our lives with the enormity of astrological time. They are at once nostalgic and disconcerting.
Bauhaus is Clare’s tribute to her new city, Berlin. Inspired by her many trips to the Bauhaus archive, and created using only images found in Berlin’s many flea markets and used bookstores, the series is a love letter to both Berlin’s past and her present.
Intimate Immensity
North Sea
North Sea
Lush Summer
Bauhaus
