Analog Collage Series

All my collages organized on one page, click here to see them organized by the project.

Café and Nightlife Scenes

Some of the most enduring images to represent part of the Parisian lifestyle the last 100 years are the Café and Bistros. These establishments act as a place for social gathering and community as well as spaces that offer a quiet place for leisure, work, and people watching. As a regular at many of these Café’s and Bistro’s in my corner of Paris, I wanted to capture these moments of looking briefly at the lives of those around us in these spaces and the innate connection we share. That in the simple act of looking around can open us up to the beauty of being present in everyday life and the simple interactions we have with one another. I think of these as a love letter to the city that has become my home.

Yearning

Time

Time is the healer and destroyer of all things, which explains why we as people are consumed by this question of “Am I making the most of my time?” No matter what our path, all of us worry if we will ultimately can discover ourselves and live to our full potential or if the efforts and goals we worked towards was time spent in vain. In these collages I aim to express this eternal anxiety of the passage of time and of the uncertainty of what the future holds.

Abstract

Personal Mythology

Letters

Coffee Cups

Domestic Bliss

In this series I offer an aesthetic homage to one of the first women to practice the art of collage/photomontage, Lady Filmer. When I first started collaging, I became interested in its general origins and in the women that practiced before me. In my time researching I came across one of her domestic scenes, Lady Filmer in Her Drawing Room, and thought it was not only pleasing to look at, but an interesting interpretation and depiction of herself and her drawing room; she both captured her life as it was and her satisfaction in these aspects of her life (I explain this further in my article about female collage artists, here.) I try in this series to use her aesthetic choices in her domestic scenes and my love of creating realistic looking pictures from pieces of many other ones to create fondly remembered scenes from my own life through collage.

Artist Tribes of Paris

Collages as seen alongside my article in which I discuss the history of artist communities in Paris from the 19th century to today, and the the importance of Artist Tribes in the development of community, solidarity, and cultural exchange as well as their enduring legacy of Paris’ artistic landscape.

Article & images featured in POPOUT zine.

Framed Moments

Blog Accompaniments

Collages made to accompany my blog posts, found here.

Love & Lust