Household Pets

The "Household Pets" series of paintings, drawings and collages started here with these images. Firstly, I collaged the animals and then added the figures afterwards. In the paintings https://www.christophercroft.com/paintings/household-pets-in-a-digital-world/1 I further contextualized the images by adding narrative spaces and images.

I like making collages, particularly, in this case, as source images for new works. During our waking moments, we are surrounded by an ever changing sea of images which defy memory, authorship and cohesion. Cutting and pasting allows me a space to reassemble them in a playful and (sometimes!) meaningful way.