DC AIGA: David Versluis | Roy R. Behrens: a collaborative series of Iowa Insect Montages

Thursday, September 17, 2015

David Versluis | Roy R. Behrens: a collaborative series of Iowa Insect Montages

The Iowa Insect Digital Montage Series preface by Roy R. Behrens:

David Versluis and I decided to try something. He has a collection of Iowa bugs (dead ones) of which he made exquisite scans at high resolution. He began to send me the scan files, one at a time by e-mail, with the challenge that I should respond to them by beginning to build a digital montage, using Adobe Photoshop. I could do whatever I liked. Then I would pass that back to him, in response to which he’d make a move—and pass it back to me again (as if we were playing chess). And so on, usually with five or six back-and-forth turns, until we mutually came to suspect that the work was finished. So that’s how we proceeded.