A selection of figurative collages. When I was a young child my grandmother and I would go through old second hand art books and create scenes and figures, cutting apart those old books allowed me to break away from seeing them as sacred and also introduced me to the worlds of collage, art history, and making strange things for the sake of making. In 2021 I started making collage figures again and haven’t stopped yet. I love exploring how, through the isolation and combination and alteration inherent to collage, I can completely transform figures into new dynamic characters with personality and style. I also enjoy the power of collage as an artform, how its very nature equalizes its components. Images from National Geographic, Us Weekly, Smithsonian collections, fashion history books, antiques price guides, and junk mail all become equal components providing equal value on the same page. Collecting and cutting out thousands of various bodies and objects and animals I only take from what already is, I don’t form or draw any elements myself, in this way making collages turns into completing a puzzle where the pieces may take weeks, months, or even years to coalesce. My collages reflect my love of fashion, of women, of the eclectic, of history, of questioning the lines between the past and present, of humor, and of personality above all.