Steve Harlow - collages

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	Collage Painting Studies combining drawing and photography	Collage from positive and negative prints of photographs plus drawing from studies for paintings. Duchamp used a one meter rope dropped from a distance of one meter allowing its resulting shape to determine a "perfect" line. Cage threw I Ching coins or sticks to choose the various qualities and placements of sounds to form a musical score achieving composition outside the confines of taste. Harlow's algorithm allows taste to select each element of the collage in isolation. The whole forming through the collection of blind elements. The philosophical underpinning of Duchamp-Johns-Cage esthetic descision was that of man creating like nature instead of recreating nature. Harlow's philosophy: man is nature.