North Star Collage 3 Online Exhibition

Duluth, MN

Richard C. Johnson

The Prodigal

Digital montage
21 x 9.8 in.
2018

Throughout the entirety of my artistic practice, I have worked in a meandering path between photography and digital montage. While my photography work has been firmly rooted in the common reality. In my digital work, illustrated here, my approach is less consciously dictated, and far less staid. It comes from a primal impulse, or perhaps primal compulsion, to create. I draw on the same archetypal elements that have historically fueled mysticism, magic, alchemy and religion, and I feel are the very same elements to be at the base of my artistic creation.