STATEMENT

I create analogue collages using only material sourced directly from magazines. Nothing is digitized, resized, re-colored, or manipulated beyond the physical acts of cutting and arranging. My process begins as a quiet excavation through pages, searching for images that resonate. These cutouts are then sorted by size and stored in drawers. When I return to them, the process becomes more intuitive—like pulling tarot cards, where unexpected themes rise to the surface and reflect what’s stirring beneath my awareness: memories, unresolved questions, or recurring thoughts.

The act of pairing images is driven by visual and emotional resonance. I listen and respond, letting the images guide the composition rather than forcing a fixed idea. The backgrounds are constructed with care, often using hand-cut strips of solid color sourced from magazines to ground the collage and create depth. What emerges is not just a visual composition, but a kind of personal map built from the remnants of mass media.

The materials I use are the same ones I grew up around: advertising, magazines, media culture. But rather than selling products or lifestyles, my collages unravel the modern mythologies embedded in these images. I draw on the visual language of religious relics, totems, and shrines to highlight the unspoken “gods” of our cultural imagination. Mass media functions as a kind of contemporary mythology, shaping how we see ourselves and the world. My work reclaims these fragments, asking what happens when we hold them in a different light.