When I collage, my process involves gathering images from magazines or other newsprints and combining them to form new images that in some way make sense on a heuristic level. What determines how I decide on a final image is the phrase “I’ll know it when I see it”. Hopefully in my work there is something that challenges the normal way of seeing things, something pleasing on an aesthetic level, a story telling element, and an element of humanity and relationship. Then end product is conceptual as well as expressionistic.

-Alvira