couches & sHadows
A career in digital design solidified my process of endless layering and revision, but long days in front of computers poured fuel on my desire to work with a tactile medium.
I realized that pages of discarded design magazines, strewn with endless variations of couches and shadows in soft gradients and rich colors, could transform via scissors and rubber cement into velvety petals, moody voids, ambiguous visual metaphors, or anything at all.
Anxious pandemic hours inside provided both the need and the time to process what we were experiencing. I couldn’t stop the influx of events, but at least I could create an antidote.
The images unfold over time, like putting together a puzzle with no box cover to reference and no set piece shapes, reflecting whatever is happening around me at the time of their making. I hope they calm, inspire, and challenge you to find your own interpretation of their meanings.
