Fall Through Space, an analogue collage made as a trap door to exit the harshness of reality. This collage is actually made on the inside cardboard of a Cheese-its box.

This collage is set in this dark icy blue water like background. The main image is a dreary yellow overcast city scene in a place I have never been & will not find. Within the city I have gouged out these frayed holes and filled them with bright contrasting confetti punched circles.

The confetti is striking & chaotic, maybe even disorientingly beautiful cast against the blue & this dreary yellow/green city meant to represent joy & the hidden unknown, the underbelly on a place you want to escape from into some place with a full spectrum of offerings. The highway leading out & in is scratched into with a blade & torn open in this almost clawing pattern. Maybe a warning? Maybe evidence of trying to escape?

For me this piece was made during a moment in time where I wanted to be anywhere but where I was, I was homeless and seemingly trapped in a dangerous and hostile situation with very few ways out and almost no one to call. I quite literally had to create a hatch to escape the despair and the caving in all around me. Maybe this piece also signifies the ways capitalism feels like a trap we cannot break out of, like everything we need to have a joyful & loving & brilliant life has been covered up by the mundane & the pursuit of surviving something we may not even like anyways.

This piece asks - what's buried just beneath the underneath the surface for you? What does it take to feel free right now in this moment?