Michael Jordan steps out onto the court in a pair of yellow heels, a Céline model lifts her dress to flash a jockstrap, and Anna Wintour sits poised in a Chinatown fabric store – all in the absurdist, two-dimensional world of collage artist Kalen Hollomon.
“I used to have pockets overflowing with clippings of dicks, butts, vaginas, stilettos… everything,” says the photographer of his IRL collages, which have made him somewhat of an Instagram phenomenon, with over 82,000 followers. “Bringing a vernacular sense of ‘reality’ to fashion imagery for me unlocks a hidden sensual spirit that’s usually silenced by all the honking and yelling or untouchable glamor.”
Here, Hollomon brings to life its most rugged sign: Taurus the bull, and talks censorship and dream scenes.
Instagram’s terms of service are and have been ridiculously strict so unfortunately its recent censorship of bare butts comes as no surprise. Soon it will be against the rules to post a person showing any skin at all, it will be strictly pants and turtlenecks. #Turtleneckstagram.
My dream scenario would be to come across a Free the Nipple rally where I would impose turtlenecks and jackets on all the protesters, covering all the sacred nips.”
If I was a sign, I would be stubbornly passionate, subtle and abrasive — all via ESP. It would fall on 18 September at the stroke of midnight.