A colourful wheel of flesh and flower floats in white hyperspace like an organic Pop Art target. Melding flora with fauna, Dale Bolivar conjures up an earth-shaped mandala that references the interconnectedness of all living things – the bloom and the bulge. If you look long enough, you might even see it start to spin (as it does on his website).

The Toronto-based photographer/illustrator has been tearing up magazines for quite some time, but graduated to digital cut-and-paste three years ago. Wheel, fashioned in Photoshop from original images, contains the arm of plucky model 'Whitey', and some rather effulgent hibiscus shot one late summer's day in a downtown park.

"My work is very often built around colour and form, rather than meaning," says Bolivar. "I see a lot of things in my collages, but I'd rather let others find their own interpretations."

Text Tony Magnusson