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Matthieu Bourel — worx - Take a look at these cool and weird collages by Matthieu Bourel.

„Shopped!“, is the constant cry of internet's sceptic and avid web browser. But after seeing Thomas Barbéy's works many sceptics are pleased to say “'Shopped”. Barbéy's surrealistic manipulations are not only works of retouching and airbrushing - he also sticks the negatives together, photographs them, uses other techniques to reach the concept vision he had in his mind first – but few are able to resist the gripping illusion. Isn't illusions what people are looking for in life and art?

Collages are also often used to solve crimes of a complicated nature. What is your theme for an inspirational collage?

Emma Black

The natural world is a never-ending source of inspiration for Italian artist Marco Mazzoni (Hi-Fructose Vol. 20 cover artist), whose colored pencil drawings explore the worlds of pagan healers, midwives and herbalists. These women were deemed witches at various points in history, for their knowledge threatened the patriarchal power structure of the Christian church. Mazzoni specifically culls his imagery from 16th-to-18th-century Sardinian folklore, studying the region's historically…