A surreal collage combining botanical illustration with figurative elements: layered fabric textures in rust and cream tones, fresh produce including cabbage, berries, and raspberries, arranged with a pair of lips against a pale blue background.

Vogue May issue 2018

collage by nicola kloosterman

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Creator: nicola kloosterman
Rights: Vogue
Year: 2018
Found via: https://nicolakloosterman.com/

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Traits

Movement

SciuraMaximalism

Highly layered, texture-rich compositions mixing vintage and modern codes.

Layout

StackedDepthLayered Overlap

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

Medium

CollageWorkCollage & Photomontage

Work built by cutting and recombining existing material — paper, print, photographs, scanned ephemera — where the seams between the parts are part of the image rather than something hidden.

Subject

ObjectStudyStill Life

Isolated objects arranged and lit for their own sake, including product photography and constructed still life.

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