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Philipp Igumnov is a Russian artist based in Moscow who over the past decade has created a hybrid art of collage, illustration, and photography under the name “woodcum.” This monicker ain’t no sexual tree-fucker slang or the past tense actions of an amour but (apparently) a play on the words “would come” as inspired by his English teacher at high school who kept repeating the phrase “would come” like some kinda idiosyncratic tic.

Igummov took his cue was from various digital artists who were similarly experimenting with collage and image manipulation. Igummov had produced work as an illustrator but found drawing on top of an assembled picture gave it a clarity, substance, and reality that illustration alone failed to do. Well, at least for him this was the case.

He exhibited his work through his blog and Flickr and soon the browsing public came to like and share his images across the net. Now, you can buy prints of his work from a starting price of around $35 or 30€, details here.

H/T Flashbak.