Cardboard Cities

Collages of cauliflower sunsets, horse gibberish and bikini babes

Piecing together scenes from dreams and reruns of Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone, Welsh collage and mixed-media artist Laura Redburn creates vibrant vignettes on paper under the moniker Cardboard Cities. Her portfolio flows like a nostalgic scrapbook tinted with just the slightest hint of patina, but pierced with bright colors to enhance the otherworldly scenes. Part of the appeal of collage work lies in …

Dirk Westphal at Maison 24

Exclusive photographic series "Caps" and "Payphones"

Dirk Westphal has worked in several mediums throughout his career, putting images of goldfish on surfboards and creating copious volumes of collages, but he is probably best known for his photography, and his ability to combine of images and objects that explore and convey what he calls “perceptions of beauty” in society. Westphal now becomes the latest addition to the designer roster at Maison 24, …

Guy Laramée

Our interview with the artist about sand-blasted books, ethereal paintings and a transcendental point of view


 Examining evolution through the dual lens of spirituality and science, Montreal-based book sculptor Guy Laramée creates miniature landscapes from antiquated paperbacks. Drawing upon over three decades of experience as an interdisciplinary artist (including a start as a music composer) and an education in anthropology, Laramée carves out an existentialist parallel between the erosion of geography and the ephemeral nature of the printed word. Laramée …