Mixed Media and Collages

I like to combine medias as a way to emphasize, enhance, and experiment with my work by adding different and new elements. Collaging, physical and digital collaging, is just a favorite pass time of mine as well.

Global warming is something I continue to discuss in my art work. It’s a cause that’s very important to me, and something I want to dedicate my time to now, and even more in the future after I graduate. This specific project was also something that I made during Covid for my Advanced Photography class.

The project was whatever we chose to do, and with all of the time on my hands I wanted to do something bigger than what we usually did in class. The photos are from a pier in the U.P., and once I developed them I really wanted to do something to make it more than just a few photos. I often tend to lean more towards mixed media.

As part of another school assignment, I had to research the well known LGBTQIA+ activist and author, Leslie Feinburg. I wanted to include them here because LGBTQIA+ rights is a cause that is very important to me. One way I like to express, and inform people about queer rights and experiences through my art. Feinburg has become a major inspiration for me since I read their book Stone Butch Blues, a very emotional and traumatic narrative about the queer community in the 1950s and on.

The two pieces pictured above are both part of a mixed media project for my AP Photography class in high school. (There are a few more images that were for this project under my digital photography work.) For the project my idea was to use lost and forgotten items from thrift stores and create meaning from them. At that time, and still now, I really like(d) thrifting because you’re able to re-home, some well loved and some disregarded, things. I took this idea and combined it with my love for embroidery; once I edited the images, I used canvas printing paper so I would be able to use needles with it.

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