031115 / "WHAT WILL BE" Collage

I make sense of the world through my hands. In my recent body of work I’ve created and shared one handmade collage on social media every day since December of 2012. Collages are a tapestry of vaguely familiar images that have been set free from context and come together to create a moment that is freshly relevant in present. I collage to juxtapose images from our mass produced visual past in order to create daily thought provoking pauses in our lives. I’m influenced by our dependency on technology and the vast amount of visual stimuli we experience daily. Our interwoven cycle of connection to the virtual world and disconnection to the real world is unprecedented. As the internet continues to transform us culturally, its impact on us personally continues to shift. I create work that investigates the balance and implications of our personal and societal relationship with media and technology. My work explores concepts through an often humorous yet subversive tone. The hybridization of human, machine, and nature is of great interest to me. I often explore beauty standards and media’s fictionalization of the female body. I find freedom in expression and the commitment to collaging daily is a mindful practice in my life.