Handmade artist’s book in edition of 5. Signed and numbered by the artist.

“I’m Not Sure I’m Ready to Play” is a collaborative collage-making project between River Hongjie He and Eliza Maria Voinea. Working with various mediums such as textiles, photography, ink painting, and Ai generators, Hongjie’s art focuses on the iteration of tools and their interplay with image making. Maria has been working on creative literature projects after graduating from Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Together, they embarked on textual collage, cutting words from publications like “The Times,” “National Geographic,” and exhibition catalogs, rearranging them into surrealist poetry that explores multiple themes like nature, politics, culture and art. These poetic texts served as prompts to generate images using AI, expanding collaboration beyond human interaction to include artificial intelligence. The resulting collages pay homage to the Dada period, embracing its ethos of absurdity, randomness, and anti-establishment sentiment. While employing traditional handcrafted binding techniques and wooden material, the work seeks to strike a balance between conceptuality and craftsmanship.

——- River Hongjie He

River Hongjie He (b. 1998. Chongqing, China) mainly works in photography and textiles, absorbing inspiration from personal experiences, nature, philosophy, multi-culture, and symbols. Interested in visual and haptic textile traits, Hongjie translates her photography and graphic design into large-scale textiles through digital hand weaving. By combining AI generator and photography, computer-aided design and traditional manual process, image and textile, she tends to explore more possibilities in interdisciplinarity, as well as the relationships between the tool, maker, and material. 

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website: www.river-he.com