INTUITIVE COLLAGE

A creative workshop exploring mindful, tactile and intuitive collage using found paper

‘Intuitive Collage’ is a workshop series conceptualised by Araki Koman and based on her relationship with paper and her collage practice as an artist. Participants will be invited to explore the art of collage, focusing on mindfulness and intuition through the use of found paper.

This workshop is an invitation to rethink our relationship with paper. Pulp and paper are the 3rd largest industrial polluters of air, water and soil. Although effective recycling systems exist, nearly half of the wood harvested globally is used to create new paper. Additionally, 14% of what goes to landfills is paper-based. As this paper decomposes, it releases methane gas and allows toxic inks, dyes, and polymers to seep into groundwater. Learning to see used paper as treasure rather than waste is one humble way to slow this devastation down.

Beyond sustainability, this workshop is an invitation to embrace a regenerative and animistic mindset. One that invites us to learn to see, feel, and think in new ways. When we begin to see found or discarded paper not as waste, but as treasure, our relationship to it shifts. And with it, the way we perceive our reality.
By nurturing what is often overlooked, we start to reconnect with life itself, and to become more conscious in an embodied way, not just in a consumerist way.

Working with paper in this way is quiet, but powerful.
Because once we’ve truly felt the subtle aliveness of even the smallest fragment, we cannot unfeel it.
And when we feel, we begin to belong again.

SETTING
Cozy & calm
Relaxing herbal tea
Silent workshop with atmospheric music

OUR AFTERNOON TOGETHER INCLUDES:
1. Landing
Light body movements and breathing practices to land into our body, become deeply present, and make space for our creativity to flow.

2. Paper gazing
Exploring and engaging with all of their senses with a variety of found paper, noticing how different textures and materials feel in the body.

3. Collage Artists inspirations
A short presentation of Araki’s work alongside pieces from various past and contemporary artists working with paper collage in subtle and intuitive ways.

4. Collage making
Participants create their own artwork using a curated selection of found paper.

We look forward to an inspiring afternoon of exploration together.

Ticket price includes all materials and light refreshments.

LATEST & UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
25 may 2025 at Intā (Antwerp)
29 june 2025 at Intā (Antwerp)