Collage shortcuts

Well, this is of course playing with words:
First of all, a collage featuring M.J. which I wanted to be as ambiguous as the artist himself. And, looking closer, there is something medical about it, in the way he is manipulating us or himself, with the loss of brain in both cases.

The prince I am speaking of here, is Richard Prince, the glorious painter of nurses. So, here I am too, I am not a prince, but a simple commoner, and my works, as you know perhaps, don't cost one percent of the Prince's.

My nurse is joyfully liberated, she throws all her clothes away, but keeps cautiously her mask, is that an allusion on safe sex or on a threatening epidemic? Collages are mysterious, their meaning difficult to seize, my discourse on my art so flat - I feel happy and stupid at the same time by these summer days.

This collage:
came very quickly, in an instant. A family member had asked me for something on boats and sea, a magazine was open on the seascape from Marquet, and the pipe-line worker beneath. And it matched imediately. I fitted the captain's head to the pipe - and it was done! C. was delighted, me too, because I liked this joke with the very bourgeois seascape from Marquet, adapting it to our times. And... last not least, I am a sort of pirate too, with my hijacking of pictures. But it's only imaginary, and light. Sometimes it's good to make light collages: it's summer, it's very hot in my study and life is easy as the song says.
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This collage started with a picture of a camel race. It came quite quickly and I focused on the face. Afterwards I was thinking about the human condition and the sufferings people endure, especially in Africa: those terrible pictures of refugees in Sudan for ex. As everybody, I am aware that I am unable to change anything by my art, but it had just to come out of me.
There are still some aspects of this collage that I don't understand: the presence of the thumb and how the face fits so well into the animal's body. In fact, there's another collage which shows the same merging between man and animal:

The content here is much lighter - it is more a joke about men today: they got a ring through their nose, but behave proudly.
Enjoy!