Mixed media collage of a whale cutout with a background of watercolor clouds and landscape, filled with black-and-white photos of people, including famous personalities and everyday individuals, creating a vintage Hollywood glamour and historical vibe.

Entangled, mixed media collage, 22”x25”

A collage of black-and-white photographs of women, with some colorful paint splashes and textured patterns overlaid.

Entangled, detail 1

Mixed media collage combining a textured abstract landscape with a collage of vintage black-and-white portraits of women and men.

Entangled, detail 2

Entangled was created from layers of vintage and handmade paper, ink, encaustic, and linen. Archival images of human faces gather to form a treelike structure that moves through the work like a collective body, carrying memory, history, and time. The figures merge and dissolve into one another, suspended between growth and fracture, presence and disappearance.

Fields of ink and encaustic drift across the work like weather, water, smoke, or changing terrain. Wax both conceals and preserves, allowing fragments to emerge slowly, as though held beneath layers of atmosphere and memory. The materials retain a sense of instability. Paper softens, wax clouds, and the surface absorbs the effects of touch and age, echoing the vulnerability of the environments upon which the work reflects.

Rather than depicting climate change directly, Entangled considers how human lives remain bound to ecological systems across generations. The work suggests that histories do not exist separately from the landscape, but move through it, accumulate within it, and leave lasting impressions upon it. Faces become roots, branches, currents, and networks of interconnection, reminding us that the boundaries between body, environment, and memory are far more porous than we often imagine.