In Past/Present I create Polaroid photocollages by combining images from my personal archive, with those from public archives, as a means to process and respond to our post-pandemic reality.

Since I began self-isolating on March 14, 2020, I’ve scoured digitized archives for images that resonate with what I am currently seeing and experiencing. Simultaneously, I mine my own photo archive and revisit instances from my own personal history. These images then become the source material for surreal mash-ups.

In these compositions, silos of photographic information collapse as images from advertisements, academic texts, museum collections, scientific studies, and my own life are spliced together. The past and present are altered and combined as I imagine what the future may hold. Fragmentation, superimposition, and montage are the languages I have chosen to explore in order to conceive new visual metaphors that address this moment.