Arts Night Out/ "Universal Pandemonium" by Louis Falcetti

Start: Jan. 10, 2014, 10 p.m.

End: Jan. 11, 2014, 1 a.m.

Collage art like you remember it, raw and visceral, made by hand (with help from brain, heart & gut). From the pages of America's mass marketed past to the secret part of your brain you keep hidden from yourself, collages that dance political, leer satirically, and vibrate with the wonder of universal pandemonium.

From Louis:

I don't normally sit down with a concrete idea in mind when I create. Creation coming after hours and hours (spread across days/weeks/years) of culling thousands of clippings from hundreds of sources. Stream of consciousness cutting, not setting out to find a picture of a man or a cop, just letting my conscious mind wander away and letting my hands just move. Evolving and evolving but not trying or forcing. I believe that every collage I can ever make has already been made somewhere in the future, I'm just helping them along. When I see images I see the pieces of them that seem to speak to me, to ask me to cut them loose and then put them back together the right way. It was never supposed to be an advertisement for cars, it was supposed to be a collage. There are hidden messages in the world around us and we can each decipher them in whatever way helps them make sense for us.
If this doesn't make sense it's because my act of creation doesn't make sense, it's nothing I've been taught, it's just something that's come out of me. It's something that I've needed to do. The world is a lot less scary once you cut it to pieces and reassemble it for yourself. It's not accepting the implicit order and instead losing yourself in universal pandemonium.