I have found collage to have enormous flexibility and untapped potential. The printed page is my source of color, form, pattern and light. I do not reproduce or resize the images in Photoshop or use any digital processes. My work is strictly cut and paste, the glue smudges and visible edges expose the craft and the maker’s hand.
This rigor of using images as they are found is integral to my project. Often, though not always, the original printed object is obscured, though not erased in my work. However obscured, the printed object retains it cultural lineage while being transformed through the combination of multiple images on a single page. This collision of content and form does not tell, it reveals. Like an apparition: a glimpse that forms an impression; the viewer connects the dots.
This rigor of using images as they are found is integral to my project. Often, though not always, the original printed object is obscured, though not erased in my work. However obscured, the printed object retains it cultural lineage while being transformed through the combination of multiple images on a single page. This collision of content and form does not tell, it reveals. Like an apparition: a glimpse that forms an impression; the viewer connects the dots.