Meaghan Shelton (Victoria, Australia) Tail, 2021 collage, cyanotype, discarded paper offcuts, embroidery thread, watercolor, pigmented ink, gouache 29.5 x 23.625 inches Tail draws on the evocation of memory within domestic spaces and considers how women artists use materials and methods of craft practices to connect …
Sara Baker Michalak (New York, USA) Letters Looking For a Language, 2022 decollage, paper, acrylic, panel 8 x 8 inches Human imagination is fired by our experiencing the mysteries: the incomplete, the unfirm, the perennially fluid. Exquisitely alive, relentlessly wanting, and hungry, we craft to …
collage
13.75 x 13.75 inches
By exploring the external — an obsessive fragmentation of multiple perspectives drawn from the visual culture surrounding us — I am simultaneously looking inward, drawing references from diverse philosophical sources and spiritual practices. Working with the symbolism of a circle that protects, maintains, flows, and connects, this work was produced in confinement, exploring notions of time and relationship while embodying the domestic quality of the round placemat on my kitchen table makeshift work surface.
Vaidehi Reddy (New Mexico, USA) Kalighat, 2021 gold leaf, watercolor, gouache, paper 11.75 x 16.5 Inches My work illuminates the migrant consciousness through my personal experiences as an Indian Émigré in the United States. Dismantling and challenging the otherness of the East done by years …
Phoenix Lacey (Colorado, USA) Bridging the Four Directions, 2022 uncollage, photography, paint, charcoal 24 x 19 inches Juxtaposing flora & fauna, the human & nonhuman, this piece depicts the root network of elements and spirit — bridging our bodily experience with the body of Earth. …
burnished interlocking collage; recto: xerographic prints on 19th- and 20th-century end-pages (left: How a Tree is Made into Lumber—lumberjack cutting a tree trunk into rectangular sections, Le Magasin Pittoresque, Larive and Fleury 1874; right: Clysmatica Nova, Joannes Sigismund Elsholtz 1667), definition of graft, pencil, map frame cuttings, wax paper transfer; verso: xerographic transfers of Clysmatica Nova, Joannes Sigismund Elsholtz 1667, Elsholtzia Ciliata, and a graft diagram, pencil, golden section proportion scale 1.618, endpage cuttings, Yes Glue, document repair tape
8.75 x 17.125 inches
I wonder what would be possible if, as a species, we could agree to connect with a specific possibility and work together to achieve it. If we all chose to do the same thing all at once, for example, what might our collective impact be? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “In 2020, as the country responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, CO2 emissions from energy consumption in the United States fell to the lowest level since 1983.” Imagine if we agreed to regularly curtail the use of combustion engines. Imagine what lessons we could learn by practicing abstinence, even for short periods of time. Moreover, what if we become good at working together en-masse regularly? What might humanity be able to connect with then?
Sasha Samuels (California, USA) Fire Study #1, 2020 oil, canvas 7 x 10 inches Having survived the CZU Lightning Complex wildfire of 2020, on the heels of leaving an abusive relationship, I turned to my art practice to process my compounded trauma. What is on …
Maica Gugolati (Italy, Trinidad and Tobago) Cazabon Now, 2019 digital collage 9.25 x 12.5 inches This work uses imagination as a way to question visuality connected to the act of living in extractive postcolonial spaces. Landscape etymologically means “to shape the land”; this project relates …
digital photo montage
10.237 x 29.527 inches
The selected digital images came from personal photographic files spanning from the last eighteen months, then those digital images entered Photoshop, and post-production commenced with parts of the selected digital image connecting to a new creative narrative within the new template chosen.
A leap of the imagination, being part of amOs – (artist memoir Of self). A breath from reality and reconnecting to the creative spirit. The universe in universal thought. A symbolic digital photomontage tapestry from the unconscious mind, body, and spirit within the framework of me, myself, and I, being in place and space within the zone of zeitgeist. Pixel Panel II is a portion of my parts that present themselves at the time of placement. A touch of surrealism meets whimsical notions resembling the essence of an imagination in a dream reflecting rejuvenation. Carl Jung’s spirit in fairytales frequently enters the thought whilst in post-production.
Anna Fine Foer (Maryland, USA) Phylogenic Entanglement, 2022 collage, watercolor 30 x 22 inches With more accurate observational techniques available to scientists, more discoveries demonstrate how biological and physical states of being are less delineated and more entangled than previously hypothesized. For example, physicists tell …