Even amongst the wonderfully eerie compositions, we’ve come to recognize as collage art, Alex Eckman-Lawn creations stand out, being especially quirky. Using anything from old medical texts to his own digital paintings, his multi-layered collages are hand-cut with extreme precision layer after layer.
As his work collapses inside itself, the viewer is invited to fall down the rabbit hole, following Eckman-Lawn’s lead. So far, his work has appeared in comic books, on album covers, book covers, T-shirts, music videos, newspapers, and posters; as well as amassing some 70k followers on Instagram, a noteworthy achievement to any artist.
But when it comes to the creative process itself, Eckman-Lawn mostly relies on his intuition. “Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” he told Beautiful Bizarre, adding that in such case it’s just a matter of finding the right images, “until it looks right.” According to him, “that can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”
“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living, and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else,” he notes. Take a look at some of his original creations in the gallery below.
