CULTURAL JUXTOPOSITION
Mixed Media Collage Series
In an attempt to combine differing cultures and histories into a new form of shared or global culture, these collages juxtapose imagery that explores the progress of mankind. While we all celebrate the differences in who we are and where we're from, there is often a loss in a greater identity when we divide and categorize our populations. We are all citizens of Earth and are gifted with one shared Reality. This collage series is an exercise in representing our universal and globalized society and how we are ultimately related in our shared and separate sub-realities.
SOCIAL REALITY
Comfort and satisfaction is a facet of living life in our reality, and it is often contrasted with pain and suffering. In this dichotomy, can you have an experience of one without the other? Do we open ourselves up to alternate realities in hopes that these avoid that discomfort? Does the television, or social media platforms, dogmatic religions or commercialism act as distractions ....or do they provide a numbing agent to our constructed realities and the discomforts of daily life?
Reality is a flux of unsympathetic exchanges of energy, yet mankind has found tools for modifying the way we see our reality to help make sense of it and limit the anxiety of the unknown.
Cultural Amalgam: Extensions of Social Reality, 2022. Printed media collage (8.25"x 8.5").
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