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Father, working artist, Democratic Socialist. Californian addicted to travel, culture, history, music, fine art, photography, design, architecture, philosophy, science, nature…wisdom. www.curtiswissler.art

My self-portrait at a restaurant in Porto, Portugal, March 2026.
Two feet hanging in front of a static-filled tv screen with the words, "Hanging out – in the USA."
Utilizing both analog and digital imagery, a digital collage showcasing different textures to amplify a disintegration of the different images.
The erosion of logical thought: a mashing together of disparate, colorful, and fragmentary hints of a greater whole. Clear thoughts constantly being interrupted and rearranged in our consciousness. How would our ancestors have confronted the daily avalanche of new information? A digital collage made up of a seriously compromised collection of images: A collection of multicolored chrysanthemums, a variety of hummingbird species, a line of tasty plated foods, an isometric pattern, and business-related typography.
Hard to Read 2025 A digital collage featuring fractured views of a human face, a pink flower, moon targets, a portion of an apple, the shadow of a cactus flower, an incomplete illustration of palmistry, and that shadow-casting cactus flower itself. This collage came out of my experimenting with masks in Photoshop and trace lines in Illustrator. I like the sense of mystery it gives off. Sparse color and clever details.
WWII-era newspaper illustration of a Nazi soldier being stabbed in the back.