Architectonic Collage
My mixed-media collages are based on architecture in contemporary urban settings and ancient sites I’ve visited in world travel. Since moving to New Mexico in 2014, the textured, weathered surfaces of the region’s historic architecture have also influenced this work.
The compositions come directly from impressions of specific places I’ve seen: the spray-painted metal rolling doors of an inner-city bodega, the weathered walls of a church in Goa, an ancient Roman fresco. I translate my recollections into formal, linear collages, reducing specific details into structured intervals, saturated color, geometric divisions, and tactile surfaces.
I make the collages by gluing down layers of precisely cut “found” and hand-painted paper, building up and abrading colors to evoke architectural surfaces. Marked by age and wear, the tactile physicality of ”found” materials mimics the surface qualities of ancient and urban structures.
In emphasizing observation, improvisation, material physicality and patient process, my studio work draws on my ongoing meditation practice. The resulting work embodies the elusive, but penetrating and palpable sense of “presence” embedded in physical locations shaped by the passage of time and use.
