John Stezaker, Film Portrait, 2005 [Photo-collage]

"Much of my work is not really to involve with collage so much as an economy of cutting and removing"

"...when you collect you are trying to master something that resists mastery. You are trying to create a blockage against the inexorable flowing away of things and images, to retain something consigned to disappearance. In this culture it is a way of making visible against the ground of the images in the process of disappearance. But mastery is also an illusion, though perhaps a necessary one. In fact, rather than giving possession, the collection represents entrapment. It is master, and you are its servant. Jean Baudrillard says that the final term of collection is the collector"
- John Stezaker