STATEMENT

I create analogue collages using only material sourced directly from magazines. Nothing is digitized, resized, or re-colored beyond the physical acts of cutting and arranging. My process unfolds in two phases. It begins as a quiet excavation. I flip through pages, listening for imagery that resonates. These fragments are then stored unsystematically in drawers.

In the next phase, I graze through those drawers, shuffling the decontextualized bits of paper into emerging compositions. Even the backgrounds are carefully constructed from solid colors cut from magazines, grounding the iconography they hold. This unfolding configuration often feels like a kind of oracle or divination—the imagery offering back hidden truths and private confessions from my own psyche. Rather than me telling the work what I’m contemplating, the work tells me.

Through collage, I construct shrines, icons, and sacred objects that emerge from the ontological horizon of inherited symbols and personal myth. I deliberately anchor these sacred forms at the center of the frame, echoing devotional altarpiece and mandala traditions that place the divine at the axis of perception. By reimagining sacred hierarchies through a centered visual language, I offer an entry point into my embodied, symbolic world.

My process is both archaeological and alchemical: I unearth, reframe, and re-enchant the familiar. In doing so, I ask what it means to create personal meaning within a landscape already saturated with collective symbolism.