NOVEMBER 8, 2023 GRACE EBERT

“Oh, island in the sun.” All images © Toon Joosen

Artist Toon Joosen continues his retro mashups, splicing two distinct images into ironic and amusing juxtapositions.

“Let’s take the stairs”

Artist Toon Joosen (previously) continues his retro mashups, splicing two distinct images into ironic and amusing juxtapositions. Having amassed an enormous archive of magazines and newspapers from the 1960s, Joosen tends to identify a pair of clippings “that together strengthen or alienate the whole,” he says.[…]

“It’s the same boy who puts snow on mountaintops”

“True love that’s a wonder these days …”

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