Odessa MOTEL

Collage

12" x 9"

My work at the moment is focused around the medium of collage. These collage pieces, meticulously crafted from vintage comic books, fuse diverse fragments to reflect overlooked realities. Serving as a distinctive prism to our globalized age, these vibrant tapestries resonate with profound significance. Amidst the spectral presence of unrealized futures, my work becomes a pulsating echo of our cultural history. Through this transformative visualization, I traverse the nebulous boundary between memory and reality, led by a discerning comic-inspired lens. I have been approaching this body of work through the theme of lost futures. It reflects on the enthusiasm and hopefulness of the futures that were promised. We now find ourselves in that future and it is not the future that was assured. Collage is the medium for the early millennium to capture the ideas of Capital Realism and Hauntology. Just like music, cinema are re-hashing the successes of the past, collage is how contemporary artists are making sense of the world in a world of lost futures. In a neoliberal globalized world, our entire culture is a mash-up of what came before and collage is the medium to best reflect that. Images carry weight and power, and over time, a history. Visual information is one of the primary ways we remember the past. Collage is a way to utilize this embedded, fractured history to create new narratives. I don't approach the blank 'canvas' with any idea of what the piece might look like upon creation and instead let the pieces create themselves through an unconscious and subconscious method.