“I see collage as a form of recycling. I am attempting to build something new and unexpected by layering and juxtaposing a variety of disparate elements together.”

Michael Waraksa is a Chicago based artist/illustrator and a graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He has exhibited his work at various venues around the United States and his illustrations have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, TIME and The Los Angeles Times. His work has also been selected to appear in Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, American Illustration and Society of Illustrators.

Waraksa uses many disparate pieces, taken from scraps of text and images from magazines or newspapers, discarded items in the garbage, or his own photography and illustrations.

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