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An animated digital collage layering two surf photography frames with bright cyan hand-drawn lines, black geometric shapes, and cut-out graphic elements.

Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells

An animated collage layering two surf photography frames with hand-drawn digital illustrations and graphic shapes, built from cut-out photos, video, and sound looped into what Wells calls "looping worlds."

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Credit

Creator
Rich Wells
Found via
Colossal

Clipped

danysegv

August 21, 2026

Traits

Movement

ZinepunkGrunge

Imperfect, choppy layouts and heavy analog textures acting as a gritty, human counterbalance to overly sanitized, AI-generated digital art.

Palette & Light

BlueHourBlue Hour Grade

Cold twilight and overcast flatness — blue-grey shadow at low contrast, the cooling counterpart to golden-hour warmth.

Layout

RawAsymmetryAsymmetry

Irregular, off-balance column breaks and floating elements mimicking imperfect physical zines.

StackedDepthLayered Overlap

Elements stacked front-to-back and allowed to occlude one another, building depth through overlap rather than perspective.

Treatment

AnalogNoiseGrain / Texture Check

Heavy analog noise, rough scans, and tactile textures serving as an authentic defense against smooth AI perfection.

Subject

LandFormLandscape & Nature

Terrain, weather, water, and growth, with the natural world rather than human presence carrying the frame.

Shares traits with

Ranked by how many traits each reference has in common with this one — computed from the image, never from who is looking at it.

Film poster for 'Loquita por ti' featuring bold red condensed sans-serif typography overlaid on a photograph of a figure in a rural landscape with a red bullring wall.Magazine cover for i-D featuring a close-up portrait photograph of a face with grain and high contrast, dark hair partially obscuring the view.A color photograph shot through rain-streaked windows of a crowded red train interior packed with bundled passengers in winter coats and hats.A collaged zine spread combining black-and-white photographs of male figures with hand-drawn and scanned graphic elements, including an American flag, decorative borders, text fragments, and abstract line work.A tour poster with bold black condensed sans-serif typography listing three California cities—San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco—arranged in stacked lines.Magazine cover featuring a tightly cropped portrait photograph of a man with dark slicked-back hair and pale blue eyes, wearing a dark suit and striped tie, shot against a pale blue-teal tiled wall with flash lighting and a cool, bleached color cast.Magazine cover featuring a colour portrait photograph of a person with short dark hair and pale complexion against a light blue background.A surrealist oil painting depicting a fantastical landscape with a monumental structure combining striped metal cylinders, geometric patterned fabric, and abstract white sculptural forms against a blue sky with white clouds.A portrait photograph shot on 35mm film shows a person wearing a white blazer and crop top against a twilight sky, holding dried flowers and branches with faded pink and brown blooms.An abstract painting with diagonal white stripes cutting across layered, atmospheric washes of blue, teal, and grey-green tones.A hand-cut collage of two nearly identical rose images with horizontal pink and dark striped overlays, creating a glitch or digital distortion effect.A bold advertising campaign image for Comme des Garçons featuring two large yellow flowers with dark stippled centers and aggressive black linear marks radiating outward against a light gray background.