Cut and Paste

Constructed Histories I - Striated, mixed media collage, 10"x14"

Constructed Histories II - Blush, mixed media collage, 11"x15"

Constructed Histories III - Compressed, mixed media collage, 10"x14"

Constructed Histories IV - Red Field, mixed media collage, 10"x15"

Initially, this series was created in response to my collaboration with photographer Ah-ram Park.  We worked together on a series of photographs titled “Re-purpose” that depicted bundles of discarded billboards.  These collages are reactions to those photos and are created through an additive layering process, similar to how signs are installed.  I constructed paper spaces through cutting, pasting and tearing that created new passages of compressed structures.  I am intrigued by the imagery that peaks out from each bundle and how these elements are suggestive of their unexposed interiors.  Within these searches, I remain interested with how the hierarchy of language is influenced by the layering and concealing of abstract imagery.