Une semaine de bonte is filled with several intriguing images. I noticed that Max Ernst repeatedly uses the same animal-human comparisons, however, he constructs the images in a large variety of ways. The collage-book is filled with extremely detailed images containing these animal-human figures, but each image and section is unique and drastically different from the others. Since the collage-book is made up of images that are very different from each other, and because many of the images combined the figures of two different species, I began to think about the creative process of making the collage. The images are clearly put together to form a narrative, but I can’t help but feel like due to the nature of the work (combining body types and landscapes), there must be a great deal of improvisation that goes into the process (at least when tasked with creating hundreds of these collages).
