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Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre is behind these fantastic photomontages (via manipulation of existing photographs, mostly portraits) to create entirely new work. At first glance, these kaleidoscopic images seem to be contorted to perfection that seems almost hard to believe. See them up close and you’ll see that there’s an intricate bond between the hand-glued pieces, each placed so carefully that it forms a new masterpiece.

The one above (topmost) is entitled Exploding Ingres, a 11.6 × 16.5 inches manipulation of an original painting by Ingres and will be available for sale very soon at her website. Lola has so generously shared her work in progress for us as well – thank you Lola!

I’m also enjoying the interview that she did on Viceland.

Felix Fénéon was the author of more than 1,000 faits-divers (brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational and lurid) that appeared over the course of 1906 in the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Fénéon’s news items are populated with opium addicts, prostitutes, drunks, those flattened by trains and carriages, inept and angry thieves, protestors, and simpletons.

When New York Review Books Classics published Luc Sante’s English translation of Fénéon’s dispatches as Novels in Three Lines, illustrator Joanna Neborsky was inspired to bring twenty-eight of them to life using a mixture of collage and drawing. The resulting illustrations, combined with Fénéon’s economic and electric prose, comprise Illustrated Three-Line Novels: Félix Fénéon. I really love how Joanna brings a touch of lighthearted whimsy to Fénéon’s depressing sound bytes with colorful characters who seem to be oblivious to the chaos surrounding them.

I know what I want for Christmas! 🙂