Artless Collage

I’m not a U2 fan at all, I must confess, but I do rather like this collaboration between Bono and model/photographer Helena Christensen. The pages are torn from BlackBook, and can be dated back to 2005 or perhaps 06 when Ali Hewson and Bono launched their label Edun.

The pair photograph one another, with Bono painting original lyrics across his photographs and subsequently penning a poem to Helena. The pages are assembled as a spontaneous collage. Messy handwriting and paint keep the spreads fresh and artless (pardon the pun). It’s a bit like drawing stream-of-consciousness style. 

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