COLLISIONS
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. I move page by page through magazines, listening for images that resonate.
These cutouts are sorted by size and stored in drawers. I graze through the drawers and start pairing images based on visual or emotional resonance. I then begin to assemble the pieces into compositions. The assemblages often feels pulling tarot cards, a kind of oracle divination process revealing what is present in my thoughts, emotions, or memory.
My role is to listen, to follow, and to respond. The result is not simply a visual composition but a personal map created from the remnants of mass media. The backgrounds are constructed with care, using strips of solid color cut from magazines to ground the imagery they support.
"American Bounty", 18x24, 2024
"Neried" 14x18", 2025
"Codependence", 11x8.5", 2023
"Lady of Cao" 12x24, 2025
"Lobster Dance", 14x16" 2023
"Heiress" 5x7" 2025
"Cruisin", 7x5", 2023
"Rangoli" 11x17, 2025
"Squid Pope" 6x8" 2025
"Benediction", 8.5x11, 2023
"Shtreimel" 8.5x11" 2025
"Bevakasha", 16x14", 2023
"Lilith" 11x17" 2023
"Felipe" 11x17" 2023
"Flower Vase" 8.5x11" 2023
"Virgin Mother" 11x17" 2023
"Take The Taconic", 17x11", 2023
"Plague of Guilt", 17x11", 2023
"Sacrificial-Rom" 11x17" 2023
"Mermaid" 14x16" 2023