Look Again

This series of multimedia works explores themes of social and environmental justice.

Each started as a collaged image work and all have been reworked into more complex, layer works, utilizing drawings, pen and ink work, acrylic and watercolour on top of the collaged images to explore and develop each of the themes further.

Issues of racial and gender discrimination, income disparity, environmental concerns, homelessness, power biases and control are integrated into these works.

The initial collaged work explored how the world, through the period of Covid, seemed very broken, and the torn and shattered photos and pictures reconfigured and assembled as new images seemed apropos at the time. It seemed like a hopeful gesture. Images of violence and fear filled the evening news with police violence and the names we came to know – among them: Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright and  George Floyd. Then this sense of impending collapse of our familiar world was compounded with news of expanding white nationalist groups, wild conspiracy theories, the Jan 6th insurrection and the coverage of disasters attributed by scientists to climate change and global warming, all pushing our Doomsday clock a little closer to 12. Taking broken pieces and seeing them re-formed into whole images and looking at new creative ways to address these issues and provide a contrast to the general sense of depression and despair.