Laid Still — Still Fragments

“I love to put things together. I’ve come to recognize that the way I think is collage.” — Louise Nevelson

My work explores collage as both process and a strategy that allows me to think in fragments. These photo-collages are constructed from cut-up photographs and one-of-a-kind images and found objects, forming hybrids that merge photography with painterly materials through cutting, layering, and reconstruction. Working with fragments allows me to resist building a whole. Disparate elements, often incongruous and drawn from different visual or conceptual spheres are brought into proximity, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge. Fragments and remnants are not discarded; they are re-considered, framed, and given new context. In this way, the work reflects a continuous process of de-structing and re-assembling, where images are unsettled, reimagined, and held in tension between cohesiveness and disruption.