By stealing all the various beats, noises and sounds they've wanted, and building it into their own stunning audio collage, [The JAMs] are making a direct assault on the way records are put together".
A "stunning audio collage" featuring an AIDS public information film, a rerecording of glamour model Samantha Fox's "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", and the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring O'Roses", "All You Need Is Love" comments on sex and the British media's reaction to the AIDS crisis.
Cai uses this connection between gunpowder and life to guide him as he uses variously colored gunpowders to paint and dye massive collages, which are absolutely stunning.
Further, there are many moments of stunning technical expertise that charge the collage medium to a new level -- especially given that the work also evokes the hyper inexpensive magazine tesserae of a high school art assignment.
It is a collage of emotions and images, a visually stunning whirlwind of super 8, digital, beta, film, pixelvision, whatever he could get his hands on.
He is best known for his visually stunning hybrid creations part painting and part mosaic and for his series of collages based on front-page articles from The New York Times.
Unlike his familiar collages, and the related lithographs and screen prints -- the stunning "Odysseus Suite," for example, with its hard-edged forms and strong, flat colors -- the monotypes are soft, translucent and spontaneous.
But the collage illustrations, especially of the Manhattan skyline and Times Square, are stunning, and might offer artistic inspiration for snowy housebound days.
