Sebi Schager (AT) – Human Backbone

Hard black-and-white digital collage, sometimes accented with gold — images combined not by concept but by instinct. The technique is closer to the Wheel of Fortune than to mood boards: elements from antiquity, pop culture, fashion, and religion are cut and clashed until something clicks. The hard edges are the point — collage doesn’t blend, it confronts. A method rooted in the graphic designer’s eye for composition, where knowing what belongs together is a reflex, not a decision. The approach finds parallels in Sebi’s Easy Paintings series, where the same intuitive collision plays out on canvas.

Human Backbone — the spine that holds everything upright, literally and figuratively. A skull floats in a golden circle like a memento mori coin, a black horse charges through the center, a kneeling classical nude echoes Rodin’s crouching figures, while a woman in white stands poised on the right and a mecha figure looms above — antiquity, fashion, manga, and mortality in a single frame. The collage logic refuses hierarchy: no element ranks above another, everything competes for the backbone of your attention.

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