a series of 6 collage paper works.
2014


sittin' on chrome

These collages are informed by craigslist 'missed connections'. This category of the popular website yields vivid recollections from individuals in which they believe they shared an intimate moment with another human, but neglected to act upon the felt connection. The post is meant to serve as an effort to reconnect and otherwise capitalize on the missed connection.

Upon reading these posts, and absorbing the many details, I couldn't help but paint a picture in my head of these scenarios. They truly felt like verbal 'single scene narrative' paintings. And in turn I embraced the chronicle, and illustrated it with found and self constructed images. 

missed connections

A series of mixed media works in which the painted and drawn mark are combined with collaged elements. The found imagery is all sourced from a series of texts titled "Best of Photo Journalism". The text was quickly sourced for the most impressionable imagery. The resulting collection was further filtered, and combined with hand made marks. The effort is to construct a visual space where original marks combine with borrowed images to progresses and update what has already been labeled as the "best of".

Phillip Faulkner