Context II

2015 - present

Collage

Context II is a series of collages, mostly in black and white. It emerges from the exploration developed in the Context I series on perception and presentation. I chose to use collage as a medium because I see similarities between the process of perceiving the world and reading a collage. Both are essentially the creation of universes and meanings through the reconfiguration of symbols, contexts, and notions.

Inspired by Tumblr and the Mnemosyne Atlas, each collage is a construction generated by the convergence of lines and textures. Once excised, pages from encyclopedias and magazines printed in the 20th century are collected, analyzed, and juxtaposed. Our daily lives are composed of ideas, prejudices, and "truths"—elements like lines on paper that, when converging, dissolve the collage and make it appear credible, plausible. How much of what we consider real isn't? How much of the artificial is intangible?