Everything begins by trimming rounds with several diameters with a cutting plotter. Next, a sketch with the main lines of the portrait is plotted on paper, which will serve as a guide to the transparent cellular polycarbonate bottom. And they will stick thousands of points of transparent, transparent gray vinyl in a single tone that becomes darkened as they are superimposed, and they are joined apparently disordered but methodically placed. When the viewer moves away from the work, he reveals the details and nuances as a whole. Everything starts from a photograph, and the work ends after several weeks of work in an authentic and unique portrait.
Everything came about accidentally, when we manipulated the sticky vinyl, and I verified that overlapping them gave a variety of tones.
And I proposed the challenge of creating large-scale figurative portraits without painting.
And after exploring and experimenting for a long time, a surprising, unpublished and contemporary technique emerges.
Josep Mora
The imaginary homeless
Collage of dots
120 x 120 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2019
Portrait of Samuel Beckett
Collage of dots
130 x 130 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2018
Portrait of Steve Hogarth
Collage of dots
130 x 130 cm
Translucent grey and blue adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2017
Portrait chef Ferran Adrià
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl and acrylic paint
in the cellular polycarbonate plate
2019
Portrait Freddie Mercury
Collage of dots
120 x 120 cm
Thousands of adhesive circles of Freddie Mercury
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2019
Portrait of yellow woman
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl with pixelated background
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2018
Portrait of Amy Winehouse
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2015
Portrait of John Lenon
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2015
Portrait of Elvis Presley
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey and blue adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2016
Portrait of David Bowie
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey and red adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2015
Portrait of Mick Jagger
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey and red adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2015
Portrait of my daughter Aina (3 years old)
Collage of dots
100 x 100 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2016
Portrait of my daughter Aina (1 year old)
Collage of dots
80 x 120 cm
Translucent grey adhesive vinyl
and cellular polycarbonate plate
2014