Released Mar 20, 2023
This series was inspired by my reading of J.G. Ballard’s short stories book, “Vermilion Sands”, first published in 1971. In his forewords, Ballard explains that he wanted to discover the connection between certain feelings and sophisticated landscapes. He also though about De Chirico little town squares, actualized and translated as functional multi-storey car parks, and the exploration of a universe totally dominated by trends and fantasies, the neoclassicism of advertising and commercial iconography. I felt i had to try to translate the strange and surreal world in which this stories take place, and accept the challenge to concretize the mental images his words gave birth to.
Vermilion Sands, volume 1 was dropped on monday, March 13th 2023.
This is part 2, presenting the final 5 artworks from this unique series.
Julien Pacaud is a renowed digital collage artist and illustrator, born in 1972, living and working in Paris, France. Self-taught artist, he began experimenting with digital collage in the early 2000s after studying cinema at the École Louis Lumière. In parallel to his personal creations, he has also been working as an illustrator for the press, publishing, advertising and the music industry.
Favoring instinct and daydreaming, Julien Pacaud composes surreal digital collages from old photos patiently collected, then manipulated and assembled. The software replaces the scissors and the glue, and brings him other possibilities to organize the chaos. His images are as many opportunities to fall into a parallel universe (or "perpendicular dream") in which the past and the future, the improbable and the impossible, the intimate and the cosmic collide.
Pacaud recently began his journey in web3 and will progressively make his massive amount of collage artworks available as NFTs. This is his first personal drop on Nifty Gateway as a publisher.
Tarda has started publishing a big series of NFTs from Pacaud's tarot deck, entitled "The Hidden Message".
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