This piece has the feel of an excavation, mining for the real truth under so many layers of vanilla blandness.
Digital collage, 16 layers © 2025 Liz Ruest
From the Pretty/Angry series
On the base layer for this piece, there’s some pink, some teal, some orange scribbles, but much of the composition is obliterated by a lot of spackle spread throughout the middle of the work — not much to look at. I added more deep brown brush marks for emphasis, then layered some texture and colour in orange and cream. A triangular geometry diagram, on the left, falls out of what is now a dark orange region. The balance of dark and light, detail and texture, looks just right to me: a piece that could be excavated more, or covered up, as needed.
Availability
These pieces will be printed on demand, mounted to a foamcore backing, and then embossed and incised with additional marks to create a variable edition. The underlying digital work will be the same; each print will have unique marks.
- Signed unique editions created as custom orders: specify the size you’d like.