My design work: graphic & digital design, plus collage.

*: I made my first collage when I was 5, and the process of collecting little bits of stuff and frankensteining them into something new has appealed to me ever since.

Part of it is a magpie collecting fetish thing I suppose, the gathering of fragments to create an altogether new and larger whole. I find the processes of collage and still photography similar. I'm one of those photographers who identifies and captures something that is already present in an environment. I don't create it from scratch. With collage I gather images that look as though they belong together, and then I make my message/picture.

Collage is the art of aesthetic cultural garbage recycling. Sometimes I have to turn something into garbage in order to make it useable.