Claiborne Colombo is an artist, Creative and Design Director based on Lopez Island, WA.NOTES
Making art and designing things where the land meets the sea. A digital journal and visual record of Claiborne’s art, life, design, and inspiration among all other things…
Beautiful chaos.
Collage materials collected since 2005
It's funny to look through things I've held on to for so many years. It's even more peculiar when they have nothing to do with my past but someone else's.
Found objects are the majority of material I use in my collages - some of the items are random fortunes, receipts, or scraps of paper that caught my eye. For whatever reason I grabbed it an have kept it for years.
Now that I am back using these materials again I need to start collecting and adding to my supplies. Let the search begin.
To the momma that made this possible.
family collage, 2005
here's to the momma that made all of this possible. to bare feet and magnolia trees, and a family that can love across a continent. i am one lucky gal.
Humility in humor: Force Majeure.
Force Majeure Trailer for the Cannes Film Festival 2014 movie directed by Ruben Östlund
What I love about this film is how subtle human interaction creates humor throughout. Even though the avalanche is an extreme event that triggers the storyline it is purely a commentary on how humans react to events and one another. This is what makes it relatable, humble, and endearing. Also the art direction is beautiful.
Finding legs.
The creative process is similar throughout different fields. Since I work in advertising my critical thinking for art tends to parallel with the concepting process.
Color series thus far has been in the concepting phase. It's mostly exploring and finding different directions of what it could be but there is no solid idea yet. But now time to mold and shape these pieces into a cohesive body of work. Some will get left behind, some will have new life breathed into them.
I started by evaluating the different pieces - why the strongest is successful and why the weaker ones aren't working as hard. This reflection phase is all about picking favorites and dissecting intuition. I do a lot of listening to my own thoughts and to people who offer their opinion.
At this point I have decided to go in the direction of No. 1.
For me, No. 1 is the strongest for different reasons. Here are my fluid thoughts on what I like about it.
I like that it looks like a head, it's like a psychedelic skull, it reminds me of kid cudi's album cover, the white space makes you think it could be a brain or represent the inside of what is going on in someones head, i love the colors, its all complex and fluid and maybe that what i like to think is going on in my head.
So then I wondered what a family of head-space paintings would look like. Would they all draw you in and make you think? For me, I can see multiple of these retaining their integrity instead of feeling like half-ass replicas. Lets find out and lets see if this sucker has legs.
W A T E R
water is associated with qualities of emotion and intuition. it is fluid, strong, never loses shape. it is connected to the moon. water personalities tend to be deep, nurturing, imaginative, moody, sentimental, escapist, etc. it can be a powerful force, it can be still. it is a source of life. it is cleansing, healing, and loving. it is heavy and passive.
if you grew up around water it becomes apart of you and your life. you crave it when you are land–locked and its presence calms you when you make it back.