Paper Collage

My paper collages originated from a time in the desert as an artist-in-residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona. Struck by the wide landscape, never ending horizon and the intense sunsets and moonrises that happen simultaneously, I started sketching the horizons with colored torn and cut paper. The vibrant colours that come up on the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet and the light taking over the entire landscape, no photo would do that justice. I wanted to capture the way it makes you feel when you’re standing there observing the sun go down, being dissolved into the landscape. Living and working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings, I got to experience spaces designed to amplify nature instead of disregarding it, and I noticed how different that felt in my body. This inspired me to create images that are not restricted by a rectangular frame and that emphasize the purest elementary forms, free them of the sense of perspective and to give the viewer a feeling of being drawn into the images.

  “For me, collage is a great technique because it is very spontaneous and intuitive. Things can be moved and shuffled around before having to commit to a brushstroke or a line straight away”