Fine Art Portfolio

I build fragmented collages from photographs of my youth and adolescence. These images inspire me as they hold more documentation than memory. These works layer cut, torn, and partially obscured childhood photographs into compositions that feel unstable and incomplete. Faces are interrupted, bodies are cropped, and sections disappear beneath overlapping fragments. Negative space becomes as present as the image itself. The pieces do not attempt to reconstruct a seamless past but instead they visualize absence.

This body of work emerges from nostalgia, grief, and an appreciation for the things I can’t quite remember that influenced me as a person. I possess photographs of moments I cannot fully access, memories that exist only in scrapbooks or emotional residue. I am drawn to the tension between what is visibly preserved and what remains psychologically unreachable. Collage as a medium becomes both method and metaphor, an act of piecing together without the promise of wholeness. By physically cutting and reassembling these images, I confront the instability of personal history and the ways memory fractures under stress.

The process is intentionally tactile. I work with original prints, layering, tearing, and rearranging them by hand so that the surface carries evidence of disruption. The seams, gaps, and overlaps are left visible. Through fragmentation, I attempt not to recover the past, but to acknowledge its broken form and practice radical acceptance of every part of myself.