Cut Me Up Issue 9: Scars and All
38 Pages
$18
2nd Printing

Cut Me Up Issue 9: Scars and All, curated by Laurent Seljan, is a selection of 18 self-portraits that use assembling methods—tape, thread, glue, staples and pins—as expressive elements to describe each artist’s personal psychology.

Collage is the French word for “gluing.” Although glue is a means of attachment in most forms of collage, it is often hidden, creating a surreal quality. Collage can also be a metaphor for how we piece together the fragments of our lives. In our attempts to create a seamless, cohesive self, we may repress difficult emotions or conceal our flaws to create a smooth, presentable surface. But what is the real self beneath?

The artists in Cut Me Up Issue 9: Scars and All excavate the underlying structures of their own minds, and of their collage works. They expose the inner workings and how things are held together. In the process, they reveal their personal strengths and vulnerabilities—who they really are.

About Cut Me Up:
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses will form the content of the next issue.

Issue 9 Cover Art:
Paola D’croz

Issue 9 Artists:
Anwar Daoud
Paola D’croz
Jennifer Gatz
Janet Gold
C.P. Harrison
Iain Machell
Chad Martinez
Janice McDonald
Kim McIver
Sara Baker Michalak
Michelle L. Miller
Quinlan Boyd-Rhodes
Gaetano Rizzi
Holly-Dale Shapiro
Lisa Sheets
Rosanne Walsh
Laura Weiler