Three Collages from Gabriela Denise Frank

From the Artist

As an artist trained in music, design, and literature, I move stories back and forth between mediums and genres—visual, sonic, textual, performative, fiction, nonfiction, lyric—until the story clicks into place. For me, collage arises from an ecosystem of fables, myths, and Jungian synchronicities: an [im]possibility space where creatures, forms, and ideas that have no earthly business with each other can, in fact, interact. Together, they put on a play. Before a collage coheres, I let the loose pieces chat amongst themselves for a while. It can take days or weeks for the missing piece to emerge from my swipe file, an element that pulls it together. These pieces are linked by the ups and downs of this year: a contemplation of anxiety ("Oh No Segundo!" as in, here we go again), disorientation and turning away ("Joyful Disorders"), and a front-facing glance at hope ("This"). Here, turmoil calls for something different to occur: a new view, a fresh angle on the world.