The pleasure in collage lies in the inherent restriction of the medium. When you use one side of the page, you sacrifice the other. You can’t will the figure to be bigger or smaller, or facing another direction. (Those who make digital collages, this is not for you).

I almost exclusively use collage to make postcards for friends (the size limitation is yet another restricting factor). The process of creating something small and immediately sending it out has allowed me to work through ideas quickly – there is no preciousness, or sense of “series.” I create small visual stories, matched to the recipient.

However, mailing out my collages means not knowing where many of them ended up. So, reader, just imagine that there are a dozen more collages on this page that absolutely blow your mind.