Y2K Sapphic Awakening
This collage is a semi-autobiographical take on my navigating pubescence as a fuckin' dork while also being gay. Assembled mostly from 2000s teen and fashion magazines. This is my favorite analog collage I've ever made!
I love making collages. The mashing of different works has always been my favorite way to express an idea, whether in physical art or in music. I have not scanned most of the collages I've made and, unfortunately, the majority of the ones that I made between 2015-2020 were in a portfolio that was lost in the mail and never found. The ones I do have left from that era, as well as a selection of my newer works, are listed below.
I make these using images mostly from my wife and I's collection of vintage magazines, whose topics vary widely. Most of our collection is '60s/'70s Playboys as well as late '90s-00s video game publications. The wife's most recent pickup was a bunch of late '70s issues of "Farm Wife" which is exactly the type of publication I'm all here for.
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This collage is a semi-autobiographical take on my navigating pubescence as a fuckin' dork while also being gay. Assembled mostly from 2000s teen and fashion magazines. This is my favorite analog collage I've ever made!
Jan.2023 All of the statistics about wealth inequality within this artwork were sourced from the Institute for Policy Studies, the United States Census, Forbes, and the Pew Research Center.
Jun.2022 I made this collage by making photocopies of some images from a 1960s Playboy magazine and this really cool, old "Woman of the Year" button the wife and I found at a thrift store. I also used a few stamps and miscellaneous scraps of paper from a random craft pile. Aren't women so amazing?
Sep.2021 I made this collage using a shitty black & white copier and some masking tape at one of my old jobs. I made a bunch of copies and gave them to all of my friends. It's simple but one of my favorites; the Sims plumbob is the best part.
Aug.2021 This is a quick 10 minute collage I threw together at a local art museum's creative space. They had a bunch of prints of various artworks in the museum that you could cut up and glue onto a notecard. The woman with the fish has always been one of my favorite paintings at this particular museum, so I was really excited that it was one of the options.
Aug.2021 I made this extremely uplifting collage during a workshop that my girlfriend and I attended. The artist who ran the workshop, Tay Butler, is an incredibly talented artist. I would highly recommend checking out his works, especially his video collages.
Jun.2021 This is one of my favorite collages that I've ever made. It's pretty big (3 letter-sized pages taped together) and is an "interpret it how you would like" statement on the church and lesbianism. I cut all the images out of old magazines from the '50s and '60s; the only criteria for making it was that everything had to be printed in black-and-white.
Dec.2019 I found this in a notepad from a boring desk job I had long ago. I don't like to go too insane with every collage that I make, so I like that this one is cartoony and more "fun" than some of my other ones.
Jan.2019 This was a fun one. I used my Xbox game manual for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and a Seventeen magazine for the pictures. Also fuck Steve Jobs! :)
Sep.2018 I made this collage after I broke up with my first (and only) boyfriend. I thought I was pretty sly using the ripped up Mac Demarco j-card for this one. I, of course, angrily ripped it up for some reason during the course of our relationship. Luckily him and I are still friends, and he's understanding of the whole "lesbian" thing.
Jun.2018 I've always loved mid-century design AND women, so this is a perfect early culmination of those interests. Cool colors too! I'm pretty sure I ripped these from a Reader's Digest magazine.
Jun.2015 I think this is the first collage that I ever actually finished. Before I was a teenager, I mostly just played the guitar and did pencil-based drawings. I made this as a present for my mom's birthday because she loves Wes Anderson and whimsical shit in general. I think she still has the physical copy stashed away somewhere.
