Analog Collage Series

All my collages organized on one page, click here to see them organized by the project.

Café and Nightlife Scenes

Some of the most enduring images to represent part of the Parisian lifestyle the last 100 years are the Café and Bistros. These establishments act as a place for social gathering and community as well as spaces that offer a quiet place for leisure, work, and people watching. As a regular at many of these Café’s and Bistro’s in my corner of Paris, I wanted to capture these moments of looking briefly at the lives of those around us in these spaces and the innate connection we share. That in the simple act of looking around can open us up to the beauty of being present in everyday life and the simple interactions we have with one another. I think of these as a love letter to the city that has become my home.

Yearning

Stuck in The Cycle of Death and Rebirth (2024)

Time

Time is the healer and destroyer of all things, which explains why we as people are consumed by this question of “Am I making the most of my time?” No matter what our path, all of us worry if we will ultimately can discover ourselves and live to our full potential or if the efforts and goals we worked towards was time spent in vain. In these collages I aim to express this eternal anxiety of the passage of time and of the uncertainty of what the future holds.

Pursuits in the Consumption of Time (2021)

Abstract

Eyes of the Future Looking into the Past (2022)

Personal Mythology

I aim to represent three of my lifelong interests: art, genealogy, and my, now realized, childhood dream of living in Paris, the home of most of my paternal ancestors. The choices our predecessors make, whether as individuals, family members, or fellow countrymen shape our current society, personal identity, and connection to each other, for better and worse, in ways that are not always evident upon initial observation. I have found that the present is in direct conversation with the past, and to contextualize our ‘here and now’, one must plunge into and explore the people and events from before us and meet them where they were. These collages are the visual convergence of my personal search for the histories, choices, and faces of my ancestors and their families; who all lived in Paris before immigrating after the war; a tradition I now proudly follow, albeit in reverse. In honor of the choices and sacrifices they made to shape the starting circumstances of my life, I have brought them with me to the present, and preserved them in a way that even in death, their lives continue to ripple through future generations.

Family Portrait I: The Legend of Bretteville (2024)

Family Portrait II: Threads of Our Shared Past (2025)

Family Portrait III: Rue Pierre Demours (2025)

L'Arsenal de La Beauté, A Reimagined Book Cover for my Great Grandmother (2025)

Letters

Coffee Cups

Local Coffee Houses

Here’s a little hommage and thank you to the local café’s that have housed me while I worked, laughed with friends or needed a quiet moment and a friendly face. All of the works feature some of my own images.

Domestic Bliss

In this series I offer an aesthetic homage to one of the first women to practice the art of collage/photomontage, Lady Filmer. When I first started collaging, I became interested in its general origins and in the women that practiced before me. In my time researching I came across one of her domestic scenes, Lady Filmer in Her Drawing Room, and thought it was not only pleasing to look at, but an interesting interpretation and depiction of herself and her drawing room; she both captured her life as it was and her satisfaction in these aspects of her life (I explain this further in my article about female collage artists, here.) I try in this series to use her aesthetic choices in her domestic scenes and my love of creating realistic looking pictures from pieces of many other ones to create fondly remembered scenes from my own life through collage.

Domestic Bliss IV: A Room of Our Own (2025)

Artist Tribes of Paris

Collages as seen alongside my article in which I discuss the history of artist communities in Paris from the 19th century to today, and the the importance of Artist Tribes in the development of community, solidarity, and cultural exchange as well as their enduring legacy of Paris’ artistic landscape.

Article & images featured in POPOUT zine.