See Vik Muniz's Massive Photo Collages Made Of Hundreds Of Old Photographs

Boy with Pony, Album, 2014 

Vik Muniz is never one to use traditional canvases. Whether the artist is creating iconic monsters out of caviar, or using microscopic grains of sand as the platform for his creativity, Muniz abstains from your average plain-woven fabric. His latest collection Vik Muniz: Album, on view at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in New York, continues this practice, as he's creating meta-graphs: giant photographs made out of hundred of other photographs.

More nuanced than your bedroom wall magazine collage, these photo-collages are made from found personal photographs, and are arranged by the correct shading, as well as by the image subjects. The smaller images are organized to represent a real photograph from Muniz's own life—call it meta-nostalgia. For example, "Boy With Pony," above, is comprised of meticulously placed snapshots of horses, cowboys, and other Western-ready tropes.

The mind drips in anxiety thinking about how long it must have taken to create each of the four photos exhibiting. "Vik, 2 Years Old," for example, is over 8-feet-tall, and is made of hundreds of images. We imagine endless amounts of glue sticks were used, though it was probably something more sophisticated in reality.

The exhibition is open to the public through May 10th, and more information can be accessed at Muniz's website. See some of these very meta (and very beautiful) works below, and then re-visit our documentary on the artist's microscopic drawings created on single grains of sand.

New Car, Album, 2014 (detail)

Vik, 2 Years Old, Album, 2014 

Vik, 2 Years Old, Album, 2014 (detail)

Revisit The Creators Project's recent documentary on Vik Muniz: 

 Creating Sand Castles With A Single Grain Of Sand

All images courtesy Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York.