Every day, I cast my Coblage net into the vast sea of internet content, pulling in fragments of imagery, text, and cultural artifacts. It’s a process that blends automation with serendipity, allowing me to discover new stories, artists, and ideas I might otherwise miss. Today, my net caught something truly special: the work of Slovenian artist Matija Bobičić.
I hadn’t encountered Bobičić’s art before, but thanks to my automated RSS-based process, I was able to find the article on Booooooom, highlighting his work. The only clue I had to search on was the file names, which when I search for Bobicic I could not find anything, but scanning through the art category stories in my RSS reader once I saw the name w/ the Slovenian diacritics I had found what I was looking for, and inserted a link in the Coblage post back to the source.
The image I pulled from this article became part of today’s Coblage Image of the Day. My process involves fetching images from my daily RSS query, layering them together using ImageMagick scripts, and sometimes adding further refinements in GIMP. In the iterative process of digital collage, Bobičić’s painting merged with other visual remnants of the day—creating something entirely new. Based on the filename of the image I originally worked with (Bobicic 6), I titled my own piece accordingly, acknowledging the source while transforming it into a different kind of artistic expression.
This, for me, is the essence of Coblage—a reflection of the information flow that surrounds us, filtered and reassembled into something uniquely my own. In engaging with these fragments, I don’t just appropriate—I remix, reinterpret, and, in the process, discover. Today, that discovery was Bobičić. Tomorrow, who knows?
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